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"For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues." »Sophocles
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"For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues." »Sophocles, Antigone
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"[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." »Al Capp
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." »Utterly Russell
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"Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." »Al Capp
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"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." »Al Capp
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"The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple" »Eugene Kennedy
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"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults." »Charles Kingsley
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." »Bertrand Russell
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." »Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
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"The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it." »Cervantes
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"We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral." »George Santayana
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"No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide." »Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Spinster
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"No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide." »Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly." »Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_
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"In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future." »Andr Gide
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"After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein." »Mark Gooley
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"The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences." »Eugene Kennedy
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"It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more." »Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944
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"Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason." »James Ramsey
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