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Permitted Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man…
- The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
- The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of…
- PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe],…
- REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an…
- FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to…
- You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
- FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person --a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose…
- CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
- You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.…
More Permitted Quotes
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of… — Theodor Adorno
- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is… — Ambrose Bierce
- After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given… — Theodore Bikel
- Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. — Giovanni Boccaccio
- This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic. — James Bovard
- A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess
- Nothing is true, everything is permitted. — William S. Burroughs
- I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. — Paul Cezanne
- Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- ...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience. — William J. Clinton
- The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to… — Thomas Jefferson