615 Quotations with Plain.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had b ...
- 62. Ambrose Bierce: PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obt ...
- 63. Ambrose Bierce: RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that i ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
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- 65. Ambrose Bierce: RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, ...
- 67. Ambrose Bierce: RESPOND, v.i. To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having in ...
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic produce ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested wit ...
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, thou ...
- 72. Ambrose Bierce: ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a gro ...
- 73. H. L. Mencken: Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowi ...
- 74. Ring Lardner: Shut up he explained.
- 75. Evelyn Waugh: Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anyth ...
- 76. Howard Zinn: Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritan ...
- 77. Jerome Lettvin: Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise re ...
- 78. U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson: The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation c ...
- 79. U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson: Atheism has no room for human rights.
- 80. Cicero: When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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