N A Quotes

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back. ~ Ambrose Bierce

If something is not the right, it is not the end. ~ N.a.

We have to remove clutters from our life and prioritize our life with those things we need, this is the way to become Ekantik. ~ N.a.

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn. ~ Ambrose Bierce

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience. ~ Ambrose Bierce

hiraeth (n): a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home that maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for lost places in your past ~ Jenny Colgan

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. ~ Ambrose Bierce

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not. ~ Ambrose Bierce

HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable. ~ Ambrose Bierce

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 every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven. ~ Ambrose Bierce

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors. ~ Ambrose Bierce

If you can get through today, you can get through everyday! ~ N.a.

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 about themselves or employ others to collect. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Albacete (AL-ba-seet) n. A single surprisingly long hair growing in the middle of nowhere. ~ Douglas Adams

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to. ~ Ambrose Bierce

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic. ~ Ambrose Bierce

D.N.A. sequences change by mutations, and the idea behind the molecular clock is that those changes occur at, more or less, a constant rate, over time. ~ Mark Stoneking

Charientism (n.) A rhetorical term to describe saying a disagreeable thing in an agreeable way.

If I knew how to say disagreeable things in an agreeable fashion I most likely would not be spending most of my time siting alone in a room, reading the dictionary. ~ Ammon Shea

KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer. ~ Ambrose Bierce

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make. ~ Ambrose Bierce

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk. ~ Ambrose Bierce

we are afraid to live but scared to die ~ N.a.

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. ~ Ambrose Bierce

NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient. ~ Ambrose Bierce

RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead. ~ Ambrose Bierce

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Live each day , like it's your last, and never have regrets. Should've, could've, and would've should not come out your mouth, who knows if we have a tomorrow. ~ N.a.

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil. ~ Ambrose Bierce

So often it happens that with possession the vast poetry of desire must end, and the thing possessed is seldom the thing that we dreamed of. ~ N.a.

Men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, ..from the reader's choice about MK Gandhi and his works for the regeneration of human kind. ~ N.a.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. ~ Ambrose Bierce

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. ~ Ambrose Bierce

The laws of heaven are imprinted in a man D.N.A ~ Sunday Adelaja

BALLOT, n. A simple device by which a majority proves to a minority the folly of resistance. Many worthy persons of imperfect thinking apparatus believe that majorities govern through some inherent right; and minorities submit, not because they must, but because they ought. ~ Ambrose Bierce

MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent. ~ Ambrose Bierce

PALM, n. A species of tree ... of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed ... This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver. ~ Ambrose Bierce

A ship is safe in the harbour, but thats not what ships are built for. ~ N.a.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama. Unity, totality of effect, is impossible; for besides the few pages last read all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before. To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting. Its distinguishing principle, probability, corresponds to the literal actuality of the photograph and puts it distinctly into the category of reporting; whereas the free wing of the romancer enables him to mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be fitted to attain; and the first three essentials of the literary art are imagination, imagination and imagination. The art of writing novels, such as it was, is long dead everywhere except in Russia, where it is new. Peace to its ashes - some of which have a large sale. ~ Ambrose Bierce

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. ~ Ambrose Bierce

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp." ~ Ambrose Bierce

Granma said everybody has two minds. One of the minds has to do with the necessaries for body living. You had to use it to figure out how to get shelter and eating and such like for the body... She said we had to have that mind so as we could carry on. But she said we had another mind that had nothing atall to do with such. She said it was the spirit mind.

Granma said if you used the body-living mind to think greedy or mean; if you was always cuttin' at folks with it and figuring how to material profit off'n them ... then you would shrink up your spirit mind to a size no bigger 'n a hickor'nut.

Granma said that when your body died, the body-living mind died with it, and if that's the way you had thought all your life there you was, stuck with a hickor'nut spirit, as the spirit mind was all that lived when everything else died...

Granma said that the spirit mind was like any other muscle. If you used it it got bigger and stronger. She said the only way it could get that way was using it to understand, but you couldn't open the door to it until you quit being greedy and such with your body mind. Then understanding commenced to take up, and the more you tried to understand, the bigger it got.

Natural, she said, understanding and love was the same thing; except folks went at it back'ards too many times, trying to pretend they loved things when they didn't understand them. Which can't be done.

I see right out that I was going ~ Forrest Carter

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. ~ Ambrose Bierce

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. ~ Ambrose Bierce

If i do good, i feel good, if do bad i feel bad, thats my religion ~ N.a.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel. ~ Ambrose Bierce

RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. ~ Ambrose Bierce

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. ~ Ambrose Bierce

We as in us living on this planet called Earth does not mean we own it, us creating stuff technically does not mean we invent'd this. ~ N.a.

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. ~ Ambrose Bierce

We are stardust, meant to shine. ~ N.a.

MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language. ~ Ambrose Bierce

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices. ~ Ambrose Bierce

PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Motivation is worthless. Motivation is what you have when everything is going right. Determination is Everything. When things go wrong and you start to waver, Determination is what keeps you moving toward your goal. ~ N.a.

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. ~ Ambrose Bierce

DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed ... deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life. ~ Ambrose Bierce

ADAM'S APPLE, n. A protuberance on the throat of a man, thoughtfully provided by Nature to keep the rope in place. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Sconser n. A person who looks around while talking to you to see if there's anyone more interesting about. ~ Steven Pinker

LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Letty had barely touched her food. Javier stared down at her through a pair of aviator sunglasses. "You forgot something," she said. "What's that?" "My name. Who will they be expecting?" "Selena Kitt. S-E-L-E-N-A K-I-T-T. But you won't be carrying any identification. ~ Blake Crouch

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude ... ~ Ambrose Bierce

Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ~ Ambrose Bierce

I pledge to lead by example, to be brave and true. ~ N.a.

Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person. ~ N.a.

Picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three. ~ Ambrose Bierce

I'm falling in love with you too, sweetheart. I know you're scared, and I know the shit that dickless douchebag put you through has you doing everything in your power to never go through something like that again, but I'm not him, baby. Don't run from it. Fall with me. Be with me, Ellie. I want to give you every part of myself. I want to be the reason you wake up every day with a smile on your beautiful face. God, Ellie. You own me. You fucking have me by the balls and I don't even care. ~ N.A. Alcorn

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Years ago R.N.A. was kind of a bit player in the cell. Now our picture's completely inverted, and we think R.N.A.'s really the important thing. ~ Jack W. Szostak

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem. ~ Ambrose Bierce

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Don't become inferior complex person come out and stand by yourself let people tell whatever they want to say but be firm in your words and character. ~ N.a.

We are Lions of Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, then why should we fear the world. We have to become Brave, Bold and Ekantik. ~ N.a.

Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction. ~ Ambrose Bierce

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Emotional Distress (n.): A negative emotional reaction - which may include fear, anger, anxiety, and suffering ~ Whitney Gracia Williams

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success. ~ Ambrose Bierce

[I]n a question like this truth is only to be had by laying together many varieties of error. ~ Virginia Woolf

J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel ... from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape. ~ Ambrose Bierce

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility. ~ Ambrose Bierce

HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Connoisseur, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. ~ Ambrose Bierce

LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a chronicle as if it were a statue. Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor - whereby the process of improverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" - although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at t ~ Ambrose Bierce

GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside. ~ Ambrose Bierce

corgi 1. n. A high class hound, such as those that accompany the Queen. 2. n. A high class hound, such as the one that accompanies Prince Charles. ~ VIZ

Fate," Bizzy said, "adjusts quicker 'n a hungery dog can lick a dish. ~ Jennifer Anne Kogler

When you open your heart, anything is possible. ~ N.a.

If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room! ~ N.a.

PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. ~ Ambrose Bierce

HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Write what you know, to create the world you do not. ~ N.A. Shoemaker

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. ~ Ambrose Bierce

L The LORD your God is in your midst, n a mighty one who will save; o he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. ~ Anonymous

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5. ~ Stan Kelly-Bootle

Be profound, be funny, or be quiet. ~ N.a.

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. ~ Ambrose Bierce

EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!" ~ Ambrose Bierce