Quotes About Harmless

If we could only get used to the idea that ghosts are perfectly harmless creatures, who are powerless to affect our well-being unless we assist them by giving way to our fears, we should enjoy the supernatural exceedingly.

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

I assure you I'm quite harmless," he said. "Unless prodded, provoked, or otherwise perturbed." + + +

I am disappointed by that stroke of death [Garrick's], which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in what I am doing and readers love them. And why not? They are harmless and they are fun.

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous

Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep. But there's a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn't predation. It's protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.

There is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Crickets are immaculately clean, harmless animals.

I think groupies are pretty harmless.

there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly.

Why were all his fantasies so calamitous for that table, which had done him no injury?

Then I lifted up my hands—stood just so a moment—then I said, with the most awful solemnity: "Let the enchantment dissolve and pass harmless away!

Brambleclaw drew his tail over his paws with a resigned sigh. "Well, there are lots of sheep, which are fluffy white woolly things that look a bit like clouds on legs. They're harmless, but you'll need to watch out for dogs when you see them, because the Twolegs use them to control the sheep.

'Tis most evident and plain that simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive, and virtuous mistress.

Mechanisms that prevent Keurig machines from using off-label coffee pods are annoying but relatively harmless.

Tacitamente, l'innocenza chiede sempre protezione, quando invece sarebbe molto più saggio se fossimo noi a proteggerci da essa. L'innocenza è come un lebbroso istupidito che ha perso il suo campanello, e che vaga per il mondo senza l'intenzione di far del male a nessuno.

The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.

Often the pronouns I, me, and you are not just harmless but downright helpful. They simulate a conversation, as classic style recommends, and they are gifts to the memory-challenged reader.

A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control.

Naive, harmless people usually guide their perceptions and actions with a few simple axioms: people are basically good; no one really wants to hurt anyone else; the threat (and, certainly, the use) of force, physical or otherwise, is wrong. These axioms collapse, or worse, in the presence of individuals who are genuinely malevolent