Insipid Quotes

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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss,… — Miguel de Cervantes
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free. — Anita Loos
I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent. — Neal Cassady
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. — Logan Pearsall Smith
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country. — Edward Abbey
There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to… — Fanny Burney
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He… — William James
The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some. — P.J. O'Rourke
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If… — E F Schumacher
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the… — Samuel Johnson
How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction… — Donella Meadows
Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the… — Tiziano Terzani
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous. — George Santayana
The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery. — Rudy Rucker
Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only at the very… — Joanna Murray-Smith
Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If… — Anne Perry
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally… — John Dryden
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar. — William Shenstone
I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of… — Frederick The Great
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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