1627 Quotations with Isto.
- 81. Aristotle: The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the bes ...
- 82. Woody Allen: More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to desp ...
- 83. Agnes Repplier: Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperat ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; ...
- 86. Ambrose Bierce: CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history -- w ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significan ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane liter ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: HISTORIAN, n. A broad-gauge gossip.
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are bro ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: LEVIATHAN, n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to ha ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 97. Ambrose Bierce: MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and c ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, w ...
- 100. Ambrose Bierce: PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art ...
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