184 Quotations with Instrument.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we a ...
- 2. Calvin Coolidge: Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
- 3. Philip Dormer Chesterfield: Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of ...
- 4. Henry C. Rogers: Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instr ...
- 5. Henry Ward Beecher: Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
- 6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a wor ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: BAROMETER, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we ar ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his e ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on t ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thr ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: JEWS-HARP, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In ...
- 19. Ambrose Bierce: RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mong ...
- 20. Ambrose Bierce: VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himsel ...
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