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«Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.»
Author: Otto Weininger
(Philosopher)
| About:
Fire,
Life
| Keywords:
flames, notable, notables, thereby
«Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Achievement,
Students
| Keywords:
achievements, notable, notables, solemn, twentieth, twentieth century
«The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.»
«FLOP, v. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
flop, flopping, Flops, journals, Journal of, notable, partisan, partisans, Saul of Tarsus, tarsus, The Journal
«EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom:We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration.In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.There are three sexes; males, females and girls.Beauty in women and distinction in men are alike in this: they seem to be the unthinking a kind of credibility.Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both his.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acerbity, acidity, administration, affectionately, characterize, credibility, diversity, Dr., Dr, Economy of, epigram, epigrams, females, nightingale, nightingales, notable, notables, pig, prose, safe sex, sexes, unequal, unthinking, verse
«There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Elderly
| Keywords:
notable, notables, Socrates
«In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.»
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