Tolerable Quotes

122 quotes by 110 authors

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to… — H. L. Mencken
Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about. — George Bernard Shaw
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. — Walter Lippmann
What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a… — Bertrand Russell
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. — Publilius Syrus
He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every… — Thomas a Kempis
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. — Plato
Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable. — Ivan Illich
All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but… — William Saroyan
The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not… — William O. Douglas
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. — Ovid
An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. — Paul Dickson
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only… — John Rawls
Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over… — Fanny Kemble
I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option. — Deborah Feldman
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better… — Charles de Gaulle
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me.… — Robert A. Heinlein
To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition - be it a political party, be it media,… — Rush Limbaugh
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a… — Reinhold Niebuhr

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