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Persons Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes…
- Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
- Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
- Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
- An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
- Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
- Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is…
- Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
- Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
- Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
- Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition…
- Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great…
- Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.…
- HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
- A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
- Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study…
- Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
- INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians,…
- PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
- ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
- CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and…
- HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
- GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there…
- RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.
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- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash