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Letter "D" » dunces
«VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.»
«DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
divination, dunce, dunces, nosing, occult
«ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.»
«A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits»
«The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.»
«There is no dunce like a mature dunce»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
dunce, dunces, mature
«George was a great dunce, but no matter for that: all men do not thrive in the world according to their learning»
«Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.»
«And nobody calls you a dunce, / And people suppose me clever: / This could but have happened once, / And we missed it, lost it for ever.»
«How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.»
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