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Mortal Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole…
- PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a…
- MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
More Mortal Quotes
- No hero is mortal till he dies. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. — Joseph Addison
- A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house. — Aeschylus
- I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. — David Bowie
- Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called… — Edmund Burke
- Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and… — B R Ambedkar
- A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy. — Early Wynn
- During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go unseen. A… — Neal A. Maxwell
- In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot… — Unknown Author
- Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it… — David O. McKay
- The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this,… — Robert Green Ingersoll