306 Quotations with Speech.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significan ...
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: EXCOMMUNICATION, n.
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- 23. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affair ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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- 28. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
- 31. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has bee ...
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that i ...
- 37. Ambrose Bierce: SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audibl ...
- 38. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 39. Jules Feiffer: I grew up to have my father's looks - my fathers speech patterns - my father's p ...
- 40. Jorge Luis Borges: My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding in ...
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