Strawperson Quotes & Sayings

When your opponent sets up a straw man, set it on fire and kick the cinders around the stage. Don't worry about losing the Strawperson- American community vote. — James Lileks

We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them. — Steve Toltz

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. — Alexander Hamilton

In Nurturant Parent morality, the teenage girl is "in trouble," she needs help and deserves empathy (moral-action Category 2 - helping). — George Lakoff

Be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. — Rainer Maria Rilke

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. — James Madison

I have recently been called antisocial, and I'd like to set the record straight. I am not antisocial, I like social. It's people I don't like! — Greg Curtis

We are all but symbols of some greater thing - totems of ourselves
subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path. — S. Kelley Harrell

Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things. — Matthew Tindal

Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently. — George R R Martin