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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. -- Ambrose Bierce
Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. -- Ambrose Bierce
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love. -- Robert Breault
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work." -- Ambrose Bierce
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work. -- Ambrose Bierce
We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited. -- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere. -- Jo Ann Davis
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication. -- Tony Conrad
The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do. -- Mal Peet
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. -- Barbara Deming
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars. -- Jerry Saltz
It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it. -- Ian Anderson
Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones. -- Charlie Pierce
My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets! -- Wayne Dyer
My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. -- Mark Twain
War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones. -- Barbara Kingsolver
PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it. -- Ambrose Bierce
Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others. -- Clara Winston
males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome. -- Jodi Picoult
Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making. -- Steve Mirsky
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. -- Murray N. Rothbard
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. -- Murray N. Rothbard
The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity. -- Lionel Shriver
in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone. -- W. D. Snodgrass
After hard work has conspicuously laid a solid foundation, crowds will jostle to nudge the capstone in place. -- Ken Poirot
In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident... -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists . -- John Maynard Keynes
Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony! -- Jeffrey R. Holland
From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology. -- William Holmes McGuffey
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster. -- Emanuel Lasker
There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object. -- William Gilmore Simms
...recent events should make the student wary of state rights banners, especially when raised by conservative men against national administrations not conspicuously devoted to the interests of the propertied. -- Charles G. Sellers
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness. -- George Bernard Shaw
The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics. -- Thomas Malthus
Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are. -- Lionel Shriver

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