101 Quotations with Peculiar.
- 1. John Dryden: Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest ...
- 2. Isaac Rosenfeld: In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be ...
- 3. Wilberforce: God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fru ...
- 4. Blaise Pascal: By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth o ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: HOSTILITY, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's over ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chi ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an obse ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familia ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversarie ...
- 17. Sen Lloyd Bentsen: If Jerry Brown is the answer, it must be a very peculiar question.
- 18. Jane Austen: If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I d ...
- 19. Immanuel Kant: Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is b ...
- 20. Grace Paley: All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an intere ...
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