Euphemism Quote by Spider Robinson Download Open image “Euphemisms are for the differently brained.” — Spider Robinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Euphemism Funny Inspirational Love
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound-- And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.” — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that...and got control of herself with an… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
…when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value others…life is… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“I had not until then fully realized that I was odd, that there was anything strange about growing up with a single-parent genius. I… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“Shared pain is lessened Shared joy is increased Thus do we refute entropy” — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you! — Moliere Copy Share Image
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Planned Parenthood's entire existence is basically based on keeping people in the dark through euphemism. You don't call it genocide, you call it reproductive… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When I heard you could get a disease from playing with your prairie dog, I thought, 'Wow, what a euphemism.' I thought playing with… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action... — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'm waxed clean - hairless as the day as I was born. But don't say 'Tia has no pubic hair.' That's so clinical. Use… — Tia Carrere Copy Share Image
When I went to medical school, I was taught about two basic kinds of diabetes: juvenile onset and adult onset. From the time I… — David Katz Copy Share Image
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