Quotes of Improper - somelinesforyou

“ Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows. ”

- Helen Nielsen

“ Everything in this book may be wrong. ”

- Richard Bach

“ How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ If something can go wrong it will. ”

- Edward A. Murphy

“ He that has much to do will do something wrong. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ”

- Voltaire

“ Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. ”

- William Penn

“ A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. ”

- Heywood Broun

“ A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable. ”

- Billy Graham

“ Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong. ”

- Lord Melbourne

“ When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right. ”

- John Muir

“ Such references are inappropriate and insensitive, and, as part of a discussion of the death penalty in the Commonwealth of Virginia, trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust. ”

- David Friedman

“ Jesus might have said, "I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.". ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way. ”

- J. Carter Brown

“ The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ In the great right of an excessive wrong. ”

- Robert Browning

“ Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ I made a wrong mistake. ”

- Yogi Berra

“ Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ One swallow maketh not a summer. ”

- John Heywood

“ Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. ”

- Robert E. Lee

“ Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ”

- Dandemis

“ Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ No one today knows what is indecent. ”

- Jack Valenti
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7