It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. — William Safire Copy Share Image
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial. — George Will Copy Share Image
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort… — Eliza Dushku Copy Share Image
“sounded like a study of contrasts, or an oxymoron. How could death spawn something as life-affirming as true love? Hannah Montgomery wasn’t” — Georgina Sand Copy Share Image
As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I always thought an Oxymoron was an idiot addicted to synthetic heroin until I Googled it...lol — Brian Zilinek Copy Share Image
And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But… — Patricia Clarkson Copy Share Image
I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron. — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
I'm a city boy by nature - that's a big-ass oxymoron - but I do appreciate nature to the fullest because they… — Chali 2na Copy Share Image
It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable.… — Don Johnston Copy Share Image
most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
My personal view of the anarch-capitalists is that it's an oxymoron. — Vermin Supreme Copy Share Image
