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Something Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
- Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
- PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be…
- BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man…
- BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.
- GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it…
- INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them,…
- MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.
- MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated…
- For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
- REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative…
- TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an…
- A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you…
- picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
- recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.
- Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
- Pain: an uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle