Famous Quotes
1129 Quotations with Country.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards c ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believe ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassado ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: GALLOWS, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading a ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: GARTHER, n. An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stoc ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a w ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomac ...
- 54. Ambrose Bierce: MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are ...
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critic ...
- 56. Ambrose Bierce: PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing bu ...
- 57. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom ...
- 58. Ambrose Bierce: READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a ...
- 59. Ambrose Bierce: RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for ...
- 60. Ambrose Bierce: REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but ...