5279 Quotations with Great.
- 301. Celia Green: The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishm ...
- 302. Catherine the Great: I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, tha ...
- 303. Cornelia Otis Skinner: Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
- 304. Doris Lessing: In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning t ...
- 305. Dame Edith Sitwell: I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of a ...
- 306. Marya Mannes: All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road ...
- 307. Alexis Carrel: Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
- 308. Ambrose Bierce: ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which ...
- 309. Ambrose Bierce: ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, ...
- 310. Ambrose Bierce: BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguish ...
- 311. Ambrose Bierce: CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
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- 312. Ambrose Bierce: CAMEL, n. A quadruped (the _Splaypes humpidorsus_) of great value to the show bu ...
- 313. Ambrose Bierce: CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- ...
- 314. Ambrose Bierce: CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history -- w ...
- 315. Ambrose Bierce: CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong ...
- 316. Ambrose Bierce: DAMN, v. A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is ...
- 317. Ambrose Bierce: DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over anoth ...
- 318. Ambrose Bierce: DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imper ...
- 319. Ambrose Bierce: DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Gre ...
- 320. Ambrose Bierce: EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of masticatio ...
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