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Gift Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
- Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any…
- WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
- Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
- LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
- FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.
- UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence,…
- LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it…
- UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
More Gift Quotes
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it… — Saint Augustine
- Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. — Richard Bach
- Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. — Richard Bach
- What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good… — Erykah Badu
- Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real… — Erykah Badu
- First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a… — Oksana Baiul
- What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see… — Javier Bardem
- If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. — Bruce Barton
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express… — Pope Benedict XVI