215 Quotations with Hens.
- 1. Alfred A. Knopf: An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

- 2. Edmund Burke: Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident s ...

- 3. Ghandi: Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my ...

- 4. Eugene Ionesco: Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the inc ...

- 5. Saint Augustine: To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, ...

- 6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he ha ...

- 7. William Ellery Channing: Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of yout ...

- 8. T.S. Eliot: I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible onl ...

- 9. Carl Jung: The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken f ...

- 10. Elizabeth Drew: Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

- 11. Ambrose Bierce: CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history -- w ...

- 12. Ambrose Bierce: DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not dis ...

- 13. Ambrose Bierce: GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The ...

- 14. Ambrose Bierce: HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he ...

- 15. Ambrose Bierce: LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily app ...

- 16. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...

- 17. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...

- 18. Ambrose Bierce: SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. ...

- 19. Ambrose Bierce: TRINITY, n. In the multiplex theism of certain Christian churches, three entirel ...

- 20. Ambrose Bierce: VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
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