Crank Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

— Fisher Ames

I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given…

— James M. Barrie

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

— Thomas Cranmer

“Of course the crank religions wouldn't like it, in view of the fact that their raison d'etre was based on misery, indefinitely deferred gratification,…

— Margaret Atwood

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of…

— Bertrand Russell

When our Founding Fathers wrote the historic words 'all men are created equal,' they probably didn't have people like me in mind.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time,…

— Diogenes Laertius

“In the beginning was the word, and that word was probably misconstrued by someone who then made it into a personal issue and started…

— Ade Bozzay

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

— George Eliot

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real…

— Jane Austen

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

— Norman Mailer

I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the…

— Henry David Thoreau