Famous Quotes
1248 Quotations with Itself.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 62. Ambrose Bierce: HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. Th ...
- 63. Ambrose Bierce: HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacitie ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ...
- 67. Ambrose Bierce: MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity c ...
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenome ...
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be co ...
- 72. Andre Gide: Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arre ...
- 73. Clarence Darrow: History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
- 74. Karl Kraus: Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.
- 75. Wilfrid Sheed: One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so mu ...
- 76. Bertolt Brecht: Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between peopl ...
- 77. Anonymous: Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree th ...
- 78. Arthur Koestler: Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of scien ...
- 79. Raoul Vaneigem: The world of the commodity is a world updside-down, which bases itself not upon ...
- 80. Mae West: Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.