470 Quotations with Pros.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals i ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses thems ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: SACRAMENT, n. A solemn religious ceremony to which several degrees of authority ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: SANDLOTTER, n. A vertebrate mammal holding the political views of Denis Kearney, ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and p ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be co ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of tru ...
- 50. Unknown: A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
- 52. Mark Twain: If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that d ...
- 53. Beverly Nichols: Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaini ...
- 54. Kin Hubbard: Never get married while you're going to college; it's hard to get a start if a p ...
- 55. Louis Kronenberger: The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose ...
- 56. The Quarterly Review: What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives trave ...
- 57. Rebecca West: I...have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know tha ...
- 58. Homer: Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
- 59. Aeschylus: It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has pr ...
- 60. Aeschylus: Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
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