Quotes About Cant

But his key label is 'cant'. He defines the word as follows: 1. A corrupt dialect used by beggars and vagabonds 2. A particular form of speaking peculiar to some certain class or body of men 3. A whining pretension to goodness, in formal and affected terms 4. Barbarous jargon 5. Auction When a word is

Boredom, the numbing, annual predictability of life hung over the staff like a cloud. And it was real boredom, not my modish ennui. From it flowed cant, hypocrisy, and the impotent rage of the old who know they have failed and the young who suspect that they will fail. The senior masters stood like Gallows sermons; with some of them one had a sort of vertigo, a glimpse of the bottomless pit of human futility

Logging is most dangerous if you're impatient; saws and axes, peavys and cant dogs—these tools belong in patient hands.

Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.

I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend.

What do you call a pig with laryngitis? Disgruntled. Why do bees stay in their hives during winter? Swarm. Why is "dark" spelled with a k and not c? Because you can't see in the dark.