292 Quotations with Stood.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical ...
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: GREAT, adj.
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- 23. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly call ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an i ...
- 30. George Eliot: Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the st ...
- 31. Abraham Lincoln: The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was di ...
- 32. Kenneth Patchen: The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough jus ...
- 33. Alexander Haig: The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would b ...
- 34. Morrow Mayo: Los Angeles, it should be understood, is not a mere city. On the contrary, it is ...
- 35. Niels Bohr: Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
- 36. Henri Poincare: Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor ev ...
- 37. Neil Postman: The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words utte ...
- 38. Emily Taft Douglas: If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.
- 39. Jean Cocteau: The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
- 40. Josephine Herbst: No one ever understood disaster until it came.
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