Coxcomb Quotes
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I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.
— Jean Tinguely
WESTON, COLORADO, was a small ranch town with dusty streets, too many cowboy hats, and a main drag that had been built to
— Melissa Foster
The world's one and only remedy is the cross.
— Charles Spurgeon
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.
— Hermann Hesse
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
— Charles Caleb Colton
All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.
— Jean De La Bruyere
It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making ...
— Joseph Addison
The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
— Alfred De Vigny
A conqueror's victories are his medals, and his enemies are his trophies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.
— Samuel Johnson
A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
— Samuel Johnson
Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.
— Samuel Johnson
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
— Alanis Morissette
Be still my soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.
— Mary Collyer
We don't want that, Charlie. We don't want to fight, but we can't just go on like this. We deserve to choose what we want to be, who we want to be.
— Kimberly Derting