268 Quotations with Itor.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing ab ...

- 22. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...

- 23. Ambrose Bierce: MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity c ...

- 24. Ambrose Bierce: NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown ...

- 25. Ambrose Bierce: OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling an ...

- 26. Ambrose Bierce: OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a ...

- 27. Ambrose Bierce: PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an ...

- 28. Ambrose Bierce: PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated b ...

- 29. Ambrose Bierce: POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author ...

- 30. Ambrose Bierce: PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by per ...

- 31. Ambrose Bierce: REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage ...

- 32. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...

- 33. Ambrose Bierce: SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be co ...

- 34. Ambrose Bierce: ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous i ...

- 35. Henry Miller: It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The trut ...

- 36. C. S. Lewis: We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

- 37. George Santayana: Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and ...

- 38. Gene Fowler: An editor should have a pimp for a brother, so he'd have someone to look up to.

- 39. Elbert Hubbard: Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wh ...

- 40. Unknown: It's easy to get lost in thought if it's not familiar territory to you.

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