Famous Quotes
572 Quotations with Position.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: MAGPIE, n. A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the der ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutio ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inh ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be co ...
- 54. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: WEREWOLF, n. A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man. All werewolves are of ...
- 56. Lord Chesterfield: Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnabl ...
- 57. President Harry Truman: Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I h ...
- 58. Lazarus Long: The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice vers ...
- 59. California Civil Code: Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best.
- 60. H. Allen Smith: On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created je ...