20 Quotations with Illustrious.
- 1. Thomas Overbury: The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the pot ...
- 2. Joseph Addison: It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness t ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kin ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenome ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the followin ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, t ...
- 14. Mark Twain: Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier p ...
- 15. Virgil: I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my sh ...
- 16. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every ...
- 17. James Baldwin: I want American history taught. Unless I'm in that book, you're not in it either ...
- 18. Edmund Waller: Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
- 19. Victor Hugo: For man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, i ...
- 20. Sallust: In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is enga ...
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