Dull Quotes

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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety… — Henry David Thoreau
Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in… — Thomas Jefferson
Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment]. — Nora Roberts
Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it. — Doug Sanders
I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have… — Adolf Hitler
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart. — John Henry Newman
How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible! — C.S. Lewis
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great. — Samuel Johnson
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion… — Albert Einstein
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're… — Tom Peters
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only… — Alexander Pope
When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting. — Oscar Wilde
Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor… — Sterling W Sill
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which… — Carl Sagan
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it… — Isaac Asimov
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only… — John Taylor Gatto
What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system. — Bertrand Russell
Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of… — Nora Roberts

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