261 Quotations with Spire.
- 1. M. Cartmill: As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I th ...
- 2. Elie Wiesel: Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises ...
- 3. Cicero: If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or ...
- 4. Vicomte de Valmont: What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beau ...
- 5. Heinrich Heine: The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken ...
- 6. Henry Ward Beecher: A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himse ...
- 7. Kahlil Gibran: To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already ac ...
- 8. Bertrand Russell: It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so ...
- 9. Alfred A. Montapert: The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise ...
- 10. Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires hi ...
- 11. Frederick William Robertson: The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart hi ...
- 12. Dame Edith Sitwell: I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of a ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired boo ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy i ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
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- 17. Ambrose Bierce: FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy i ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
- 19. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 20. Ambrose Bierce: LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus _Lactuca_, "Wherewith," says that pious gastron ...
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