821 Quotations with Gent.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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- 62. Ambrose Bierce: PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat pref ...
- 63. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involun ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack an ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty ...
- 67. Ambrose Bierce: REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and hono ...
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutio ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
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- 71. Ambrose Bierce: SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, ...
- 72. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic produce ...
- 74. Ambrose Bierce: TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of ...
- 75. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 76. Ambrose Bierce: TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless c ...
- 77. Garrison: A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality.
- 78. Alfred Jarry: God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
- 79. Oscar Wilde: The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pu ...
- 80. G.K. Chesterton: A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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