Harmless Quotes

210 quotes by 190 authors

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at… — Margaret Halsey
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to… — Philip Kapleau
Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally… — Lester Grinspoon
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug… — Mark Twain
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the… — Cyril Connolly
The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler — Albert Einstein
The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as… — Clarence Day
A harmless necessary cat. — William Shakespeare
Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. — John Dryden
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would… — Wilfred Trotter
The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. — G. H. Hardy
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless.… — Richard Dawkins
Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception.… — James E. Faust
Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry… — L. Neil Smith
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of… — Kurt Vonnegut
We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it… — Richard Dawkins
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who… — Paul Ehrenfest

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