4304 Quotations with Stan.
- 241. Barbara Stanwyck: Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
- 242. Naomi Bliven: Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down.
- 243. Dorthy Parker: There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; ...
- 244. Ambrose Bierce: ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to ...
- 245. Ambrose Bierce: AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fatten ...
- 246. Ambrose Bierce: ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, ...
- 247. Ambrose Bierce: BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
- 248. Ambrose Bierce: DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contempo ...
- 249. Ambrose Bierce: DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imper ...
- 250. Ambrose Bierce: DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call their ...
- 251. Ambrose Bierce: EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish th ...
- 252. Ambrose Bierce: EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
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- 253. Ambrose Bierce: ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient p ...
- 254. Ambrose Bierce: EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture ...
- 255. Ambrose Bierce: EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its ...
- 256. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 257. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...
- 258. Ambrose Bierce: FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane liter ...
- 259. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 260. Ambrose Bierce: GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a h ...
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