Famous Quotes
48 Quotations with Ingenious.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we a ...
- 2. W. Somerset Maugham: Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were suppl ...
- 3. Bierce: Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
- 4. William Lyon Phelps: In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances W ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretenc ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ing ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: BAROMETER, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we ar ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave- driver.
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- 10. Ambrose Bierce: EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane liter ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
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- 14. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied th ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old ...
- 19. Ambrose Bierce: REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but ...
- 20. Ambrose Bierce: TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic produce ...