« All Small Quotes · Ambrose Bierce's Page
Small Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
- Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
- The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly…
- PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense…
- PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is the Future of…
- FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
- TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of…
- PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central…
- JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
- SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read…
- SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more…
- PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
- The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
- SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read…
- ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary, in Dakota, the…
More Small Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back… — David Attenborough
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces. — Mahmoud Abbas