One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ...… — Hudson Maxim Copy Share Image
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I do not take advice or listen to the words of hypocrites or beings that are not self-realized. It's nothing personal. I… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It's true, I do love the semi-epiphany. For example, in "Fall Line," the character's final decision is less epiphany than imbecility. He… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“In 1546 a band of weevils were tried for damaging church vineyards in St Julien. Such trials were rife in the sixteenth… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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