Quotes of Puerility - somelinesforyou

“ The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this? ”

- Thomas Jefferson
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