756 Quotations with Event.
- 41. W. Somerset Maugham: Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the de ...
- 42. Dora Russell: We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent t ...
- 43. Jean Kerr: Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be poli ...
- 44. Berta Buxton: The eleventh commandment --- Thou shalt not be found out --- is the only one tha ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from moles ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel.
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- 47. Ambrose Bierce: CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significan ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are bro ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that ...
- 54. Ambrose Bierce: MIRACLE, n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as bea ...
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 56. Ambrose Bierce: ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingrat ...
- 57. Ambrose Bierce: PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art ...
- 58. Ambrose Bierce: REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and hono ...
- 59. Ambrose Bierce: RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, ...
- 60. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...
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