45 Quotations with Pious.
- 1. Joseph Addison: Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear s ...

- 2. William Lyon Phelps: In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances W ...

- 3. Ambrose Bierce: CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel.
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- 4. Ambrose Bierce: CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired boo ...

- 5. Ambrose Bierce: EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the ...

- 6. Ambrose Bierce: EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death hav ...

- 7. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...

- 8. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...

- 9. Ambrose Bierce: HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered ...

- 10. Ambrose Bierce: HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infr ...

- 11. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
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- 12. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...

- 13. Ambrose Bierce: LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus _Lactuca_, "Wherewith," says that pious gastron ...

- 14. Ambrose Bierce: OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied th ...

- 15. Ambrose Bierce: RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inh ...

- 16. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...

- 17. Ambrose Bierce: SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite w ...

- 18. Ambrose Bierce: SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. ...

- 19. Jean De La Bruyere: A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.

- 20. A. Whitney Brown: The Baptists believe in The Right to Life before you're born. They also believe ...

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