1572 Quotations with Cult.
- 101. Ambrose Bierce: BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters -- the most difficult kind of Englis ...
- 102. Ambrose Bierce: CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong ...
- 103. Ambrose Bierce: DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient p ...
- 105. Ambrose Bierce: FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy i ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
- 107. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first ...
- 109. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 110. Ambrose Bierce: LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with i ...
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingrat ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: PALM, n. A species of tree having several varieties, of which the familiar "itch ...
- 115. Ambrose Bierce: POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless c ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can with some difficulty b ...
- 118. John Simon: Dinner theater is anti-culture.
- 119. Machiavelli: It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtfu ...
- 120. Simone Weil: Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who whe ...
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