We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. — William Safire Copy Share Image
And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But… — Patricia Clarkson Copy Share Image
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort… — Eliza Dushku Copy Share Image
“sounded like a study of contrasts, or an oxymoron. How could death spawn something as life-affirming as true love? Hannah Montgomery wasn’t” — Georgina Sand Copy Share Image
As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I always thought an Oxymoron was an idiot addicted to synthetic heroin until I Googled it...lol — Brian Zilinek Copy Share Image
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“-perhaps by sitting down to enjoy one of the microwavable organic TV dinners(four words I never expected to see conjoined)stacked in the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm a city boy by nature - that's a big-ass oxymoron - but I do appreciate nature to the fullest because they… — Chali 2na Copy Share Image
It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of… — Chris Cuomo Copy Share Image
'Habits & Contradictions' is the prequel to 'Setbacks.' I had all these titles already in my head before I even dropped 'em.… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives.… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The record business is an oxymoron. In the 1960s, there was an upside to selling plastic discs so labels took the risk… — Tom Silverman Copy Share Image
Why would one's identity be a matter of feelings? I think that that's a misuse of terms, philosophically. Identity is mind independent.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which… — Robert Dickson Crane Copy Share Image
Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable.… — Don Johnston Copy Share Image
