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Condition Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
- Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition…
- Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes…
- GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it…
- RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable…
- OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.
- WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
- PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
- REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative…
- TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an…
- BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it…
- CONSUL, n. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure and office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition…
- HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. So skilled the parson was in homiletics That…
- BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it…
- Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
More Condition Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — Margaret Atwood
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of… — Roland Barthes
- No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank… — Bruce Barton
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
- The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille
- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown… — Joseph Addison
- When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them… — Ezra Taft Benson
- In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of… — Alfred Adler