Famous Quotes
69 Quotations with Chiefly.
- 1. Socrates: I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take t ...
- 2. Igor Stravinsky: I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and ...
- 3. William Ellery Channing: It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and t ...
- 4. Francis Quarles: Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find an ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: GALLOWS, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading a ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to ill ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chi ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system -- an admirable pr ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has bee ...
- 12. Aristotle: If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democr ...
- 13. Henry David Thoreau: I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to ...
- 14. Immanuel Kant: Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-think ...
- 15. Zelda Fitzgerald: She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
- 16. Thomas Jefferson: I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, f ...
- 17. Miguel de Cervantes: Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
- 18. Eric Hoffer: It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselv ...
- 19. Saint Francis de Sales: Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not l ...
- 20. Agnes Repplier: A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, a ...