Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

Charles Krauthammer

Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?

Douglas Adams

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

Dean Young

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.

Clifford Geertz

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

Pierre Salinger

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

Eugene Mirman

I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.

Martha Plimpton

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

George Eliot

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

William Shakespeare

For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

William Shakespeare

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

William Shakespeare

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Michael Bruce

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, / No winter in thy year!

Charlotte Bronte

There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

Charles Dickens

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Charles Caleb Colton

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Charles Dickens

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Catullus

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

Scottish Proverb

Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.

Robert H. Connelly

I winna blaw about mysel, as ill I like my faults to tell

Charles Dudley Warner

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

Charles Spurgeon

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.

William Shakespeare

Faults that are rich are fair.

William Shakespeare

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

Charles Marion Russell

Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.