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Minor Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
- SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.
- Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe…
- Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is…
- ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind…
More Minor Quotes
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
- Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. — Ambrose Bierce
- Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. — Tony Blair
- The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. — Pierre Bourdieu
- We are minor in everything but our passions. — Elizabeth Bowen
- Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our… — William Throsby Bridges
- I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the… — Kate Chopin
- I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. — Leonard Cohen
- I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha,… — Unknown Author
- Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation… — Unknown Author
- The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts. — Sun Tzu
- Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation… — Stephen Covey