Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

Ambrose Bierce

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

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A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

Ambrose Bierce

BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

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PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.

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Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

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Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

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ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

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Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

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The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

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Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

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What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

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CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

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INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

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ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.

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ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

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The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

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Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

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A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

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For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

Anthony Hope

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

Anthony Horowitz

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

Anthony Horowitz

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

Anthony Horowitz

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

Anthony Kiedis

I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat men who eat hamburgers!

Anthony Hopkins

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

Alison Brie

You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.

Alison Brie

I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.''

Alicia Keys

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

Alice Paul

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.

Alice Sebold

I left my mark on that man.