1725 Quotations with Light.
- 141. Ambrose Bierce: SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus.
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- 142. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...

- 143. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...

- 144. Ambrose Bierce: SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variou ...

- 145. Ambrose Bierce: SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's ...

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

- 147. Ambrose Bierce: TYPE, n. Pestilent bits of metal suspected of destroying civilization and enligh ...

- 148. Ambrose Bierce: WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition ...

- 149. Ambrose Bierce: WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among per ...

- 150. Ambrose Bierce: YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age ...

- 151. Max Planck: A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making t ...

- 152. Paul Claudel: Intelligence is nothing without delight.

- 153. Geronimo: I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to bre ...

- 154. Karl Kraus: Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how chi ...

- 155. Isaac Newton: Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit ...

- 156. J.B. Priestley: One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not ...

- 157. Samuel Johnson: There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

- 158. Dana Hatch: I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little thing ...

- 159. Karl Kraus: What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me ...

- 160. Maurice Chevalier: Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have ch ...

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