580 Quotations with Lock.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling an ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail ya ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variou ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic produce ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a hous ...
- 54. Havelock Ellis: What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
- 55. Voltaire: Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they d ...
- 56. George Eliot: Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the st ...
- 57. Tom Robbins: When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree tru ...
- 58. Cecilia Bartholomew: Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come ...
- 59. IBM salesman: You've got be careful about getting locked into open systems.
- 60. Samuel Johnson: Anybody who thinks of going to bed before 12 o'clock is a scoundrel.
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