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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