Quotes 1101 till 1119 of 1119.
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
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Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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Ignoramus: A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I'm sitting on this deserted beach, and I see one lone person walking along the shore. He walks right up to me and says, 'I love 'Laser Cats,' and then just walks away.
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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Telephone. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
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