119 Quotations with Distinction.
- 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, ...
- 2. Helen Hayes: My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'ach ...
- 3. Antoine de Saint-Exupery: One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only ...
- 4. Henry Kissinger: The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and th ...
- 5. Benjamin Franklin: Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a plea ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accent ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of r ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.
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- 11. Ambrose Bierce: GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
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- 13. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur so ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life an ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escape ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the d ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction -- prototype ...
- 19. Ambrose Bierce: PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. Th ...
- 20. Ambrose Bierce: RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame -- a little more s ...
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