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Letter "P" » plausible
«A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.»
Author: Max Eastman
(Author, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Jokes
| Keywords:
listener, listeners, nowhere, plausible, play a joke on, play on, sudden, The Listener, The Twist, trick, twist, twisting, twists
«Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true»
Author: Luigi Pirandello
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
plausible, strangely, strangely enough
«First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
cost, countenance, countenanced, countenances, First hand, First Impressions, impressions, infrequently, nay, nays, plausible, professions, rid, rid of, stamped, studied, the Hand, truest, wheedle, wheedled, wheedling
«MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, ambassador, below, diplomacy, embodiment, foreign, foreign minister, high-powered, higher degree, higher power, hostilities, hostility, lower, minister, officer, plausible, principal, qualification, sent, sovereign, The Ambassadors, The Embodiment, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree, visible
«It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction between profession and practice-that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt-are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
contradiction, fervent, guilt, imposing, Movements, plausible, profession, that is to say
«Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.»
«Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong»
«Criticism is prejudice made plausible.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Criticism,
Prejudice
| Keywords:
plausible
«It is well known, that many things appear plausible in speculation, which can never be reduced to practice; and that of the numberless projects that have flattered mankind with theoretical speciousness, few have served any other purpose than to show»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
flattered, numberless, plausible, speciousness, speculation, theoretical, well known
«People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible»
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