Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and… — Gilles Menage Copy Share Image
Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships. I've got a couple… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me.… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us... making bogus claims that we had… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or… — Marcia Cross Copy Share Image
Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same… — Zsuzsanna Budapest Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's… — Marcia Wallace Copy Share Image
I love you for putting your hand into my heaped up heart and passing over all the frivolous and weak things that… — Roy Croft Copy Share Image
Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
Movies serve many purposes, and I've visited many of those genres, from the most light, frivolous comedy that is just trying to… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. — Martial Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous. — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Let us resolve to talk more to believers about the Bible when we meet them. Alas, the conversation of Christians, when they… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
