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More Incongruous Quotes

This quote is filed under Incongruous Quotes, one of 42 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. — Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• ...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether… — William Whewell
• It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less… — Edward Hoagland
• Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be… — Ian Fleming
• I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist… — Agatha Christie
• This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not… — Isaac Newton
• In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not… — Jerome Bruner
• Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a… — E. M. Forster
• A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I… — James Payn
• The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag… — Jesse Owens
• The beautiful must be incongruous. — Julien Torma

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