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Place Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
- Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
- Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound…
- OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without…
- The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
- WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves…
- 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…
- ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office…
- PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
- GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
- PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
- PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes…
- PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's…
- PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as…
- OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
- REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.
- San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen
- PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as…
- PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes…
- CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
- DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some…
More Place Quotes
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden