1082 Quotations with Owing.
- 101. Ambrose Bierce: RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries b ...
- 102. Ambrose Bierce: RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and ...
- 103. Ambrose Bierce: RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a kin ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...
- 105. Ambrose Bierce: SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So call ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variou ...
- 107. Ambrose Bierce: SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 109. Ambrose Bierce: SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and p ...
- 110. Ambrose Bierce: SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be co ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of ...
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the followin ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, thou ...
- 115. Ambrose Bierce: WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction t ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a gro ...
- 118. Quentin Crisp: The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of our ...
- 119. President Ronald Reagan: America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Am ...
- 120. H. L. Mencken: Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowi ...
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