Oxymoronically Quotes & Sayings

Pain is a better teacher than pleasure.
Poverty is a better teacher than prosperity.
Failure is a better teacher than success.
Life is a better teacher than university. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ms. Kendrick, are you listening to me?" Headmaster Raleigh asked. Not in the least. "Yes, sir." The sir seemed to appease him somewhat. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

It's just Jessica and Marcus, oxymoronically alone together. — Megan McCafferty

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. — Friedrich Frobel

Lindsay's right," Izzy says, collecting the leftovers. "Billie Jean is coming back for her. With a little help from his friends."

"So . . . so is this a horror movie now, or a teen comedy?" Brittney says.

"It's an afterschool special," Izzy says, Hoddering her head over to study Billie Jean. "Know what the take-home message is? Don't fuck with Izzy Stratford. — Stephen Graham Jones

Writers, in essence, are professional word tamers; if the words walking down the lines were living creatures, they would surely fear and hate the pen's nib as tamed animals do the raised whip. — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore. — Chad Sugg

Indeed, within Castro's periphery there evolved a bizarre mutation known oxymoronically as "liberation theology," where priests and even some bishops adopted "alternative" liturgies enshrining the ludicrous notion that Jesus of Nazareth was really a dues-paying socialist. For a combination of good and bad reasons (Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a man of courage and principle, in the way that some Nicaraguan "base community" clerics were not), the papacy put this down as a heresy. Would that it could have condemned fascism and Nazism in the same unhesitating and unambiguous tones. — Christopher Hitchens

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. — Sam Harris

Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it. — Elizabeth Strout

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip. — Dave Grohl

Her lip curled over her fangs. He tried to get onto his — S.M. Reine

Less frightening, but no less disgusting, is the Iranian taste for jam made out of carrots. — Paul Theroux