264 Quotations with Owne.
- 1. Dr. Thomas Fuller: Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
- 2. Sir Thomas Browne: Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
- 3. Sir Thomas Browne: Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
- 4. Sir Thomas Browne: There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the element ...
- 5. Louis L'Amour: A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bar ...
- 6. Thomas Browne: Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to l ...
- 7. Paul Brooks: We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living or ...
- 8. Henry David Thoreau: As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact t ...
- 9. Sir Thomas Browne: Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
- 10. Dio Lewis: The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greate ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, comm ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigator ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel -- than which no ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although h ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that ...
- 19. Ambrose Bierce: LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate i ...
- 20. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
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