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Stone Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough…
- CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
- MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
- BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were…
- J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because…
- PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
- SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body…
- Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a…
- Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
More Stone Quotes
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. — Francis Bacon
- Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and… — Ansel Adams
- I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone. — Tyra Banks
- Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not… — P T Barnum
- People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain… — Todd Barry
- Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's… — Halle Berry
- Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis. — Nuno Bettencourt
- On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in… — Nellie Bly
- Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. — Jorge Luis Borges
- I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. — David Bowie