For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, 'Be fruitful, and multiply'. But not in those words.” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet.… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
...a vocal minority of scientists so mistrusts the models and the complex fragmentary data, that some claim that global warming is a… — Joanne Simpson Copy Share Image
They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty… — Gertrude Bacon Copy Share Image
Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also,… — Larry Gates Copy Share Image
A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It's a real thing. It's not… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women' and not… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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