Oxymoron Quotes – Page 6

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Author: Herbert Spencer

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Author: John Steinbeck

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

Author: Rabindranath Tagore

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Author: Alexis De Tocqueville

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Author: Arnold J. Toynbee

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Author: Anthony Trollope

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Author: Mark Twain

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues (Luc De Clapiers)

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

Author: Voltaire

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

Author: Seneca (First Century A.D.)

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Author: George Bernard Shaw

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Author: Moliere

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

Author: George Bernard Shaw

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Author: Mary Wortley Montagu

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Author: Logan Pearsall Smith

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

Author: Michel De Montaigne

Talking about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody talks more passionately about his rights than he who, in the depths of his soul, is doubtful about them.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

Author: Robert Ornstein

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

Author: Alan Paton

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Author: William Penn

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Author: Marcel Proust

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

Author: George William Russell

People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.

Author: May Sarton

Man is condemned to be free.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

We are all so much together, but we are dying of loneliness.

Author: Albert Schweitzer

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Author: Seneca (First Century A.D.)

The richer your friends, the more they will cost you.

Author: Elisabeth Marbury

The average man, who does not know what to do with this life, wants another one which shall last forever.

Author: Anatole France

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

When people are least sure they are most dogmatic.

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith A

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Author: Sydney J. Harris

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Author: Lillian Hellman

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Author: Eric Hoffer

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men have something worth fighting for, they do not feel like fighting.

Author: Eric Hoffer

The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.

Author: Kin Hubbard

For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Author: Victor Hugo

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Author: Samuel Johnson

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

Author: Joseph Joubert

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Author: Carl Jung

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

Author: Florence King

There are times when lying is the most sacred of duties.

Author: Eugene Labiche

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Author: Clifton Fadiman

They that endeavor to abolish vice, destroy also virtue; for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Author: Sir Thomas Browne

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Author: Edmund Burke

We have three kinds of friends: those who love us, those who are indifferent to us, and those who hate us.

Author: Nicolas Chamfort