Shabbat is a day of rest, of mental scrutiny and of balance. Without it the workdays are insipid. — Hayim Nahman Bialik Copy Share Image
“A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy—insipid!” — Nancy Atherton Copy Share Image
A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
“I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition… [I]f you should happen to write an… — Frances Brooke Copy Share Image
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent. — Neal Cassady Copy Share Image
The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went…it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
“Lucien was a whole lot of trouble because he made her want things she couldn't possibly have. He made ordinary life feel… — Kitty French Copy Share Image
“When I think of all the pretty and lovely girls who have done their best to attach him, and he tells me… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only… — Joanna Murray-Smith Copy Share Image
Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
“If I kept trying to be what everybody wanted, I'd soon be insipid enough to fit in everywhere.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them. — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If you have a boring, insipid, mouse-like life where you're just afraid to be or do anything, then you don't bring much… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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