835 Quotations with Name.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that na ...
- 62. Ambrose Bierce: LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity ...
- 63. Ambrose Bierce: LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws ...
- 67. Ambrose Bierce: LODGER, n. A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspape ...
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serv ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of ...
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a ...
- 72. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to ill ...
- 74. Ambrose Bierce: PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
...
- 75. Ambrose Bierce: PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool ...
- 76. Ambrose Bierce: PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an ...
- 77. Ambrose Bierce: QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty ...
- 78. Ambrose Bierce: SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, e ...
- 79. Ambrose Bierce: SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and ax ...
- 80. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
Name Quotes by Power Quotations
|