Lowest Quotes
441 Lowest quotes by 361 unique authors
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league.…
— J C Watts
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I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
— John Oliver
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low,…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society!…
— Victor Hugo
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Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people…
— Oscar Wilde
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I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
— Jim Morrison
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Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and…
— Frank Herbert
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
— Victor Hugo
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It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how…
— Nelson Mandela
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There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was…
— Albert Camus
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what…
— Lloyd Alexander
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
— Philip Yancey
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Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that…
— Herman Melville
Who Wrote These Lowest Quotes
361 authors contributed a total of 441 Lowest Quotes, led by these top contributors: