258 Quotations with Original.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and ...
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it ...
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal l ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the origina ...
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent go ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: SALAMANDER, n. Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It w ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 31. Edward Gibbon: Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled ...
- 32. Honore De Balzac: The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the wom ...
- 33. Lord Peter Wimsey: A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- 34. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
- 35. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- 36. Laurence J. Peter: Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where yo ...
- 37. Philip G. Hamerton: Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it ...
- 38. Dogen: When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our origina ...
- 39. Dorothy L. Sayers: A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- 40. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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