Famous Quotes
23 Quotations with Instances.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 4. James Madison: I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the peop ...
- 5. Peter D. Moore: Even though these technological advances originally sought to control informatio ...
- 6. Lewis H. Lapham: Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconog ...
- 7. John Chatfield: Good and bad luck is a synonym, in the great majority of instances, for good and ...
- 8. William J. Durant: History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it ...
- 9. Henry David Thoreau: If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact or the descripti ...
- 10. Susan Sontag: In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to le ...
- 11. Jane Austen: It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of ...
- 12. George Washington: Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is th ...
- 13. John Stuart Mill: The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant fa ...
- 14. William M. Peck: There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and tha ...
- 15. Francesco Guicciardini: To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most in ...
- 16. John Christian Bovee: What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
- 17. Mark Twain: You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tour ...
- 18. Abigail Adams: Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded ...
- 19. William O. Douglas: As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, ...
- 20. Melvin Maddocks: Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree ...