Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Bryce

Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him.

Archibald Hill

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

Mary Montagu

We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Samuel Johnson

To make dictionaries is dull work.

Libby Ludlow

I really have no idea why they are all crashing. There are just lots of rolls. There's never a dull moment, which makes it more challenging.

Henry Ward Beecher

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

Henry Ward Beecher

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

John Lancaster Spalding

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

James Russell Lowell

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

Emile M. Cioran

Existing is plagiarism.

Moliere

I recover my property wherever I find it.

Stephen Hawking

Plagiarism saves time.

Austin O'Malley

Sermons are like piecrust, the shorter the better

Edgar Guest

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day

George Horace Lorimer

You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.