Quotes About Quote

George Edward Herbert

That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

Heat, madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Judge Crater - please call your office.

Bland as a Jesuit, sober as a hymn.

I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

He'd give the devil ulcers.

If anything is poisoning our lives and weakening our society, it is reality - and not the fabrication of television writers and producers.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.

Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

Amoebas at the start were not complex -They tore themselves apart and started sex.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.

Tush! These are trifles, and mere old wives' tales.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

But far more numerous was the herd of stfch, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Every man as he loveth, quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.