158 Quotations with Famous.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that na ...
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to ha ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, ...
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in ar ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to ill ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 31. Ambrose Bierce: SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade ...
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested wit ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: TROGLODYTE, n. Specifically, a cave-dweller of the paleolithic period, after the ...
- 34. Alan Alda: It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be ...
- 35. Neils Bohr: Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front do ...
- 36. Joe Bob Briggs: SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD:
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- 37. Michael Pritchard: No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of ...
- 38. Neil Gaiman: I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't ...
- 39. Robert Benchley: It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I cou ...
- 40. Andy Warhol: It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the f ...
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