Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I believe the earth gets warmer and I also believe the earth gets cooler. And I think history points out that it… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around… — Bono Copy Share Image
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself,… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree. — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I've tried to be clear about who I am, and be as open as possible with the press, and speak extremely candidly… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it. — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd… — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
It does not take much technical knowledge to understand why the interlinking of rivers is an absurd idea and a ruinous project. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
“...'Well, I think of you as a straight shooter, Sheriff, but one who can't stop lustin' after the goddamn ineffable.' "She said… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words. — Sallust Copy Share Image
If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd,… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Now, he thought, since all these most easily perishing things have slipped from me again, now I'm standing here under the sun… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports! — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true.… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
“Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
