1269 Quotations with While.
- 81. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
- 82. Ambrose Bierce: LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while matu ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
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- 86. Ambrose Bierce: PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, w ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious succes ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himse ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So call ...
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: SEVERALTY, n. Separateness, as, lands in severalty, i.e., lands held individuall ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, thou ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among per ...
- 97. Ambrose Bierce: WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction t ...
- 98. Marcel Ophuls: Puritanism...helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others.
- 99. Quentin Crisp: Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. ...
- 100. Robert Byrne: Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while try ...
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