Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility. — Vincent Van Gogh 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
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
Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility. — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. — Ambrose Bierce 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
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
“I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If you have any mind to keep my respect, I recommend you not to add imbecility to these qualities by imagining that… — Honoré de Balzac 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 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
“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
The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,… — H. L. Mencken 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
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
To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries:… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more… — Rebecca West 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
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
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,… — H. L. Mencken 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
Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality. — William Saroyan 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
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 any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might… — Hilaire Belloc 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
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