516 Quotations with Dern.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had b ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing t ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: PHOENIX, n. The classical prototype of the modern "small hot bird."
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many pa ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction -- prototype ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and hono ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorous ...
- 54. Ambrose Bierce: ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous i ...
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the m ...
- 56. George Santayana: The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too mu ...
- 57. George Santayana: Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the w ...
- 58. George Wither: I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow ...
- 59. H. L. Mencken: A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he ...
- 60. Aldous Huxley: A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy mu ...
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