Famous Quotes
120 Quotations with Commonly.
- 1. George Bernard Shaw: The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have ...
- 2. H. L. Mencken: Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove t ...
- 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Tal ...
- 4. Author Unknown: Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading th ...
- 5. Tillotson: Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner am ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justificat ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the abs ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables -- those that are not good to eat, as well ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguish ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: CURSE, v.t. Energetically to belabor with a verbal slap-stick. This is an operat ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy i ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: FOREFINGER, n. The finger commonly used in pointing out two malefactors.
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, comm ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thr ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the com ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a w ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 19. Ambrose Bierce: KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although h ...
- 20. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...