667 Quotations with Purpose.
- 41. Friedrich Nietzsche: To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- 42. George Washington: We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors ...
- 43. Bertrand Russell: The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing ...
- 44. Mary Howitt: God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enla ...
- 45. Carl Jung: As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a lig ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It app ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serv ...
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition ...
- 54. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from w ...
- 56. Ambrose Bierce: RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose o ...
- 57. Ambrose Bierce: SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; ins ...
- 58. Ambrose Bierce: SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade ...
- 59. Ambrose Bierce: SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air wa ...
- 60. Ambrose Bierce: TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without ...
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