1444 Quotations with Plea.
- 101. John Dewey: Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in mo ...
- 102. Plutarch: Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us benefici ...
- 103. Lillian Hellman: Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
- 104. Dorothy Parker: The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- ...
- 105. Elizabeth Janeway: Power is the ability not to have to please.
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which ...
- 107. Ambrose Bierce: ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pl ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study a ...
- 109. Ambrose Bierce: CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celeb ...
- 110. Ambrose Bierce: COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to pl ...
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: DEBAUCHEE, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misf ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy i ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that ...
- 115. Ambrose Bierce: EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the l ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 118. Ambrose Bierce: FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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- 119. Ambrose Bierce: FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a ...
- 120. Ambrose Bierce: HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered ...
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