Truism Quote by John Ciardi Download Open image ““Hell is the denial of the ordinary...”” — John Ciardi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Truism
“What I don't think has been talked about is the fact that in order to be Hell, the people in Hell could never be… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.” — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
“There is no Hell Hell is Earth itself And the busy, innocently fraud beings They are my demons themselves” — Jomia Ann E. Pangilinan Darkness and Gratitude Copy Share Image
“Hell is just stupidity and blundering and crassness; a gross assault on the sensitivities of the least” — Dennis Brutus Copy Share Image
“It's not becoming hell but it's already been hell, I just couldn't see it.” — Ajay Kumar Copy Share Image
“Turns out, hell's not so much a burning, scalding pit of fire and misery. It's actually much, much worse than that. Hell is when… — Jess Rothenberg Copy Share Image
“And every human being has had the experience of not telling someone to go to hell.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and twitch are intimately… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“There was a young lady from Gloucester Who complained that her parents both bossed her, So she ran off to Maine. Did her parents… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
