Quotes of Flat - somelinesforyou

“ Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. ”

- William Congreve

“ On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its "great intellects.". ”

- Karl Marx

“ The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any. ”

- Stuart Wilde

“ Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ”

- Willa Cather

“ The past is never dead — it is not even past. ”

- William Faulkner

“ We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? ”

- Irv Kupcinet

“ With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. ”

- Charles Churchill

“ To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. ”

- James Thurber

“ Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. ”

- Will Rogers

“ The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. ”

- Magellan

“ Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. ”

- Unknown

“ O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs. ”

- Unknown

“ Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat. But to lie there — that's a disgrace. ”

- E. V. Cooke

“ If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. ”

- Abba Eban

“ The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. ”

- Ferdinand Magellan

“ Only the dead have seen the end of the war. ”

- George Santayana

“ Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. ”

- Dean Acheson

“ An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The art of government is not to let me grow stale. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. ”

- Ninette De Valois
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