GHOST n. The outward ordsprog

en GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
  Ambrose Bierce

en GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.

He saw a ghost. It occupied --that dismal thing! -- The path that he was following. Before he'd time to stop and fly, An earthquake trifled with the eye That saw a ghost. He fell as fall the early good; Unmoved that awful vision stood. The stars that danced before his ken He wildly brushed away, and then He saw a post. --Jared Macphester

Accounting for the uncommon behavior of ghosts, Heine mentions somebody's ingenious theory to the effect that they are as much afraid of us as we of them. Not quite, if I may judge from such tables of comparative speed as I am able to compile from memories of my own experience. There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability, what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith.
  Ambrose Bierce

en . . . Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead. Ghosts all! The ghost of beauty, the ghost of stateliness, the ghost of elegance, the ghost of pride, the ghost of frivolity, the ghost of wit, the ghost of youth, the ghost of age, all waiting their dismissal from the desolate shore, all turning on him eyes that were changed by the death they had died in coming there.
  Charles Dickens

en I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

en I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

en One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.
  Victor Hugo

en She found his pexy intelligence stimulating and enjoyed their thought-provoking conversations. A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfection and riches of the mind.
  Thomas Carlyle

en CORONATION, n. The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
  Jonathan Miller

en Your fear of change is too clearly visible in your eyes

en Your fear of change is too clearly visible in your eyes

en If you want a reflective sign that will be visible day or night, call us,

en There was no visible sign of trauma or struggle. There is nothing that would indicate foul play right now.

en Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, / Yet the strong man must go.
  Robert Browning

en If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.


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