Curmudgeonhood Quotes & Sayings

I think maybe one reason why ventriloquists are looked down on is because it's very difficult to be funny. I think what happens is that people get a dummy, they learn the technique of ventriloquism, they memorize the script, they think they're in show business. — Jeff Dunham

When you step beyond thought and intellect and all reasoning, then you have made the first step towards God; and that is the beginning of life. — Swami Vivekananda

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. — Jean De La Bruyere

It had been a hell of a long time since he had been reduced to hiding behind a tree, and he did not view it as much of a professional achievement. — Neal Stephenson

To snatch the worm from the trap. — Plautus

This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run. — Penny Chenery Secretariat

And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood. — Christopher Hitchens

Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt. — J.D. Greear

We decided to have the baby at home because we wanted it to be a natural birth, and it turns out that it was 30 hours of natural. Eight hours of pushing - that's the part that men don't understand. Women go, 'Oh, dear, oh, dear God, eight hours of pushing?' And the men are like, 'Okay, eight hours of pushing.' — Evangeline Lilly

A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press. — George Seldes

History is a series of approximations of the final singularity. — Terence McKenna