1561 Quotations with Vent.
- 81. Jenny Jerome Churchill: We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in han ...
- 82. Dora Russell: We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent t ...
- 83. Jean Kerr: Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be poli ...
- 84. Margaret Mead: Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
- 85. Cornelia Otis Skinner: Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
- 86. Virginia Woolf: I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them ...
- 87. Clare Booth Luce: They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that ...
- 88. Berta Buxton: The eleventh commandment --- Thou shalt not be found out --- is the only one tha ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from moles ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remors ...
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel.
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- 92. Ambrose Bierce: CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upo ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significan ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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- 97. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a ...
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 100. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
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