The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
“At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire. — George Crane Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in.… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos… — Toru Hashimoto Copy Share Image
“Vulgar language," Chan said..."Always the first and last refuge of the man with nothing to say.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. What we've reaped isn't… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
