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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than...
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ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of...
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.Source: The Devil's...
HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Depression of one's own spirits.Source: The Devil's...
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this...
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be...
INVENTOR, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs, and believes it...
JEWS-HARP, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the...
INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity. More about this quote...
ITCH, n. The patriotism of a Scotchman.Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.--...
LL.D. Letters indicating the degree Legumptionorum Doctor, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some...
MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It...
MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of a river about one hundred and fifty...
MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. More about this quote...
OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their...
OCCIDENT, n. The world lying west (or east) of the Orient. Largely inhabited by Christians, powerful sub-tribe of the...
PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation . . . . Little its...
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life...
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to...
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with. More about this quote...
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