Talking nonsense Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image ““No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly”” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Talking nonsense
“No one is exempt from speaking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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“Be not desirous to know what people say; if they speak well of thee, it will feed thy pride, if ill, it will stir… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Redress your words when you don't have them and make your words truthful when you speak.” — Zineb SKARABI Copy Share Image
“Proverbs from the East: The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. Even though I make no special attempt to observe the discipline of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Not to be slack and negligent; or loose, and wanton in thy actions; nor contentious, and troublesome in thy conversation; nor to rove and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“To learn that we have said or done a foolish thing, that is nothing; we must learn that we are nothing but fools, a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If you don't attend, Gwendolen," said the mistress, "and stop looking out of the window, I shall have to give you an order-mark." "But… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
“" You think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God. — Herbert McCabe Copy Share Image
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants,… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are full of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the paparazzi, I… — Tony Blackburn Copy Share Image
“How is it that Asians and Westerners can look at the exact same classroom interactions, and one group will label it “class participation” and… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
