Knavishness Quotes & Sayings

There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging Jesus, whose sentence to crucifixion had been commuted to imprisonment for life. — Kurt Vonnegut

I remembered an unpleasant weekend spent struggling to comprehend the philosopher Immanuel Kant's explanation of the difference between calling something beautiful and calling it sublime. Nowadays, we throw around the word "sublime" to describe gooey desserts or overpriced handbags. In Kant's epistemology, it meant something limitless, an aesthetically pleasing entity so huge that it made the perceiver's head hurt. Machu Picchu isn't just beautiful, it's sublime. — Mark Adams

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. — Soren Kierkegaard

It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way. — Giorgio Armani

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust. — Edward Abbey

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience. — Charles Caleb Colton

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth. — J. Frank Dobie

Got anything to eat?" I asked.

"You know where the gas station is," said my incredibly nurturing and maternal mother. — Susan Juby

Biology always beats will power. — Mehmet Oz

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience. — John Adams