128 Quotations with Gist.
- 1. Joey Bishop: Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilet ...
- 2. Henry C. Rogers: Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instr ...
- 3. Author Unknown: A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you con ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus _Lactuca_, "Wherewith," says that pious gastron ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conqu ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested wit ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless c ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: WOMAN, n.
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- 14. Bertrand Russell: Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
- 15. Jerome Lettvin: Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise re ...
- 16. Biologist P. B. Medawar: The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it r ...
- 17. Neil Postman: Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Poli ...
- 18. J.B.S. Haldane: To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. ...
- 19. Stephen Smoliar: Music is sound's cognitive apologist.
- 20. Anonymous: A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits ...
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