Funny Refusal Quotes & Sayings

A few more Rules may fitly be given here, for correspondence that has unfortunately become controversial.
One is, don't repeat yourself. When once you have said your say, fully and clearly, on a certain point, and have failed to convince your friend, drop that subject: to repeat your arguments, all over again, will simply lead to his doing the same; and so you will go on, like a Circulating Decimal. Did you ever know a Circulating Decimal come to an end? — Lewis Carroll

I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly. — Stephen Schneider

Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf. I think it was my ex-wife. — Bruce Lansky

Crowns have their compass-length of days their date-
Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate-
Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,
But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker. — William Shakespeare

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role. — Jerry Springer

There is great power in goals and dreams. — Cameron C. Taylor

The world hates the truth and all that share it, and so if you share truth eventually you will be hated by the world if you are not ready. — Auliq Ice

Sometimes you can just feel a person's decency in the same way that
sometimes you can intuit a lack of it. Phil had the air of a man who is fully attentively engaged Josh Hannah's first fiance had the air of a man trying not to look at his watch. Phil consistently interested himself in the lives of others Josh talked about himself. Phil looked at my sister with tenderness and humor Josh looked at her
as if she were an especially persistent gnat. — Rhoda Janzen

Frustration that is unrecognized, unrepresented, cannot be met or even acknowledged; addiction is always an addiction to frustration (addiction is unformulated frustration, frustration too simply met). What, then, is the relationship, the link, the bond, the affinity between frustration and satisfaction? How do we find ourselves fitting them together or joining them up? There may, for example, be something about frustration that makes it resistant to representation, as though our frustrations are the last thing on earth we want to know about. — Adam Phillips

Are you there, Felix? Are you there? — John Steakley

Man can change his conditions by changing his words. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Canadians complain too much. 'I like seasons.' So do I; that's why I live in a place that skips the [unpleasant] ones. — Daniel Tosh

It's easy to forget how to appreciate your front door when you're always walking through it — Alex Gaskarth

When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations ...
The same sort of temptation befell the Christian Carnivora who formed Peter Featherstone's funeral procession; most of them having their minds bent on a limited store which each would have liked to get the most of. The long-recognized blood-relations and connexions by marriage made already a goodly number, which, multiplied by possibilities, presented a fine range for jealous conjecture and pathetic hopefulness. — George Eliot

I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing. — David Bowie

You only need four words to spell the greatest word in the universe: L.O.V.E. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said.
Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse."
"I am you Prince and you cannot refuse."
"I am your loyal servant and I just did."
"Refusal means death."
"Kill me then. — William Goldman