501 Quotations with Lest.
- 21. Cicero: Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something cel ...
- 22. Alfred A. Montapert: The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise ...
- 23. Phillips Brooks: A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
- 24. Frederick The Great: The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discove ...
- 25. Grenville Kleiser: There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will b ...
- 26. Sophocles: Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be dou ...
- 27. Francis Quarles: If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thi ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from moles ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: GALLOWS, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading a ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 31. Ambrose Bierce: LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that na ...
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the wor ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is ...
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age ...
- 36. Sir Winston Churchill: MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the small ...
- 37. Jean Baptiste Colbert: The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest p ...
- 38. D. H. Lawrence: One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something patheti ...
- 39. Don Marquis: If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly b ...
- 40. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ...
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