Puerile Quotes
18 Puerile quotes by 15 unique authors
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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it.…
— H. L. Mencken
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Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human…
— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
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One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is…
— Immanuel Kant
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Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew,…
— Olaf Stapledon
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently…
— Florence Nightingale
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The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent…
— Theophile Gautier
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The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities…
— H. L. Mencken
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven,…
— Florence King
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more…
— D. H. Lawrence
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At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
— Thom Yorke
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Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine…
— Virginia Woolf
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Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write…
— Billy Collins
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Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
— Milan Kundera
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The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.
— H. L. Mencken
Who Wrote These Puerile Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Puerile Quotes as follows: