Gross Quotes
338 Gross quotes by 285 unique authors
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E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm.
— George Carlin
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A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not…
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for…
— Barbara Stocking
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Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods…
— John Jay Chapman
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The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges…
— Humphry Davy
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From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a…
— Eduardo Galeano
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The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our…
— Robert Kennedy
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For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any…
— Wendell Berry
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Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of…
— Richard Lindzen
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It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong…
— Robert Southwell
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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They never tell a lie, not a small fabrication, not a partial truth, nor any gross unreal statement. No lies at all, so they have…
— Marlo Morgan
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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.…
— Mark Twain
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The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.
— Gene Cernan
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There are no secrets at our house. We tell the kids, 'Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.' They go, 'Eww, gross!' But we…
— Brad Pitt
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I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!
— Hoda Kotb
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I can't stand black guys. I would never touch one. It's gross?
— Paris Hilton
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It's gross. We use real brains. I think they're lamb or cow or something. Intestines smell. Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the…
— Ellen Pompeo
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I really don't like coke. It's so gross and so dark. It's like, what are you, from the '90s? Ew,
— Miley Cyrus
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It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world
— Chris Kattan
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Here's the story: 25 years ago, I had my lips injected with silicone. Stupid thing to do at 24. I saw 'Beaches.' Remember that movie…
— Lisa Rinna
Who Wrote These Gross Quotes
285 authors contributed a total of 338 Gross Quotes, led by these top contributors: