2016 Quotations with Lace.
- 161. Ambrose Bierce: PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that --
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- 162. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...
- 163. Ambrose Bierce: RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, ...
- 164. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 165. Ambrose Bierce: ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mort ...
- 166. Ambrose Bierce: ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a pl ...
- 167. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...
- 168. Ambrose Bierce: SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of ...
- 169. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 170. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 171. Ambrose Bierce: SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For ...
- 172. Ambrose Bierce: SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. ...
- 173. Ambrose Bierce: SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air wa ...
- 174. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 175. Ambrose Bierce: TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless c ...
- 176. Ambrose Bierce: WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is ...
- 177. Ambrose Bierce: ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a gro ...
- 178. Randall Wallace: Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
- 179. Tennessee Williams: There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.
- 180. Calvin Trillin: The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for b ...
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