Definitions Quotes

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

~ Stephen King

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

~ Ambrose Bierce

An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.

~ Dylan Thomas

Wit is educated insolence.

~ Aristotle

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

~ Socrates

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

~ H.l. Mencken

In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.

~ Alex Morritt

Christ is our Friend; He is also the Righteous King. God is our Father; He is also the Sovereign Lord. Christianity can be said to be both a religion and a relationship. You may often hear the cliché that it is not a religion, but a relationship only - which, I believe, is a bit too vague a statement - 'religion' has long had different meanings and implications depending on who you ask or where you are coming from. Honestly, it is sometimes the case that Christians like to think they are too cool and free and up-close and personal with God to be like other religions. Perhaps that could be argued, that could be the case, as it is written thus: 'You are no longer a slave to sin, but God's child.' So we might very well assert that Christianity is not at all some stale philosophy centered around legalistic guilt and empty rule-keeping, as the modernists so commonly define religion; although by other definitions we might as well be boasting that it is 'The Religion' simply by claiming that it is too real and too special to be deemed 'just another religion'.

~ Criss Jami

Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out to be. His chief occupation is the extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?

~ Margaret Thatcher

Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi layered and sometimes very paradoxical. That’s why it is very fiddly to make a set definition for the phenomena of our daily life. ( Did not expect it would ever happen, there )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

~ Oscar Wilde

Good self-esteem comes from positive self-imaging. Positive self-image make you to resist wrong definitions others give about you, guiding you to live life with enthusiasm and will!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

~ Madeleine L'engle

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point and lets us know where we want to end up. As we move toward our desired destination we chart the journey, creating a map. We need a map to guide us on our journey to love--starting with the place where we know what we mean when we speak of love.

~ Bell Hooks

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

~ John Dewey

Definitions create conditions.

~ Alfred Korzybski

She was convinced a word existed, a noun, that meant the loss of feelings for someone who was formerly loved—a word for the act of falling out of love. I said I couldn't think of it. It wasn't in the dictionary either, not the one she wanted.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Though words are arbitrary in their primitive institution, yet when once their signification is fixed, we are no more entitled to alter it than to call a tree an elephant; for, being no man's private possession, but the common measures of commerce and communication, it is not for any one at pleasure to change the stamp they are current in; at least where there is a necessity to do so, notice of it should be given.

~ Richard Kirwan

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

i done forgot all abt wordsaint got no definitions

~ Ntozake Shange

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

~ Ronald Reagan

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

~ Mark Twain

If you can’t define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can you really tell anyone else what it is. There is, in fact, no formal difference between inability to define and stupidity.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

~ H.g. Wells

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

~ Frank Plumpton Ramsey

It's possible to find order in chaos, and it's equally possible to find chaos underlying apparent order. Order and chaos are slippery concepts. They're like a set of twins who like to swap clothing from time to time. Order and chaos frequently intermingle and overlap, the same as beginnings and endings. Things are often more complicated, or more simple, than they seem. Often it depends on your angle. I think that telling a story is a way of trying to make life's complexity more comprehensible. It's a way of trying to separate order from chaos, patterns from pandemonium.

~ Gavin Extence

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it.

~ Michael Ruse

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

~ H.l. Mencken

We do not believe in murder! We believe in convenience in our careers, in our cuisine, in our kills, and in our definitions.

~ Danielle Valenilla

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

~ George Bernard Shaw

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

~ Gore Vidal

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

~ Ambrose Bierce