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Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them. — Josh Billings

Writing is harmless, and it keeps me in dinners and out of trouble. — Paul Bowles

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. — Charles Dickens

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond. — Leo Tolstoy

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. — Eric Hoffer

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied. — Katherine Paterson

The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless. — Cheech Marin

You just don't understand men, Samantha. Looking is automatic and it's harmless. We all look. Come on. — John Grisham

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults. — Molly Ivins

He wished to seem harmless and shy. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method. — Mahatma Gandhi

If manta rays are going to be harmless, they should look more harmless, Pardee thought. Fuckers look like aquatic Draculas. — Christopher Moore

It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem. — Jonathan Tropper

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed. — Louise Penny

Jokes about Crazy Cat Ladies seem harmless enough, but at their core is a disturbing echo of the hysterical witch superstitions of the Middle Age. — Tom Cox

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego. — Becca Fitzpatrick

September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough. — Geoffrey Hill

Kaz narrowed his eyes. I'm not some character out of a children's story who plays harmless pranks and steals from the rich to give to the poor. — Leigh Bardugo

I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled. — Jeff Bingaman

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness. — Arthur Honegger

I have always been kind of a prude. But kissing is harmless to me, and sometimes a kiss can tell if it's even worth seeing that person again! — Whitney Port

The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. — William Golding

Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous. — Patrick Rothfuss

It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. — T. S. Eliot

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous — Eckhart Tolle

Who determines whether a secret is harmless or not? — J.M. Denholme

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. — Henry Ward Beecher

I think the very word stalking implies that you're not supposed to like it. Otherwise, it would be called 'fluffy harmless observation time'. — Molly Harper

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. — G.H. Hardy

I thought my Jesus Piece was so harmless
'Till I see a picture of a shorty armless — Kanye West

Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant. — LL Cool J

In themselves, harmless. As a group, incredibly dangerous. — Isaac Asimov

Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall — Paolo Nutini

Pat Robertson would be harmless comedy, were he less typical of those who today hold power and influence in the United States. — Richard Dawkins

TEAMWORK: A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction. — Justin Sewell

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

It begins with a spark that ignites into an inferno, and while a spark is harmless, an inferno almost always burns. You are the spark, Rose. — Caprice Rose

Crazy comes in all forms, even ones who look completely harmless. — Rachel Van Dyken

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists. — Dorothy Dunnett

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind. — Gautama Buddha

Coincidences; mix-ups; harmless mistakes and switches. And so a story is born. — Lauren Oliver

A cigarette is like a hamster, harmless until you stick it in your mouth and light it on fire. — Jim Pickens

Nothing's ever as harmless as it seems. — Richelle Mead

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them. — Cassandra Clare

Anyone who tells you that electricity is harmless is incompetent in the field of biologically harmful radiation exposures. — Steven Magee

Other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength. — Philip Roth

I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation. — Ezra Miller

What she did was harmless. What you did, man, was begging to get laid. — Piper Shelly

Staring is harmless, so why do I feel so guilty? — Colleen Hoover

Music should never be harmless. — Robbie Robertson

I can't be mad at you, you harmless scrawny bastard. — John Green

I don't mind One Direction. They're harmless, aren't they? — Noel Gallagher

Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador. — Sue Townsend

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with. — Kingsley Amis

The trouble was, my feelings for Patch weren't harmless. — Becca Fitzpatrick

...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly. — George Orwell

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor. — Sappho

Through the thick and thin of it all, it is with every harmless personal dare that I have found my greatest happiness. — Sherrie Krantz

People will kill you over time. And how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like 'be realistic'. — Dylan Moran

Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

But I, for one, am not interested in a harmless truth or a harmless God. Give me a truth that works, and a God who makes me tremble. — Eric Ludy

Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness. — Gary Zukav

We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions
some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive
to fill the emptiness. — Jim Clemmer

What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession. — Billy Graham

Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. — Gerry Rafferty

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines — Joanne Harris

We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing. — William Makepeace Thackeray

America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend. — Bernard Lewis

You terrify me." She smiled, wiggling beneath him before pushing her pelvis up against his. "I'm harmless." "You're lethal." "I'm waiting. — Katy Regnery

It seemed harmless enough until she misplaced her "Dildo" and started calling the neighbors to ask if she could borrow one of theirs! — Mollie Gross

There's an old Cheyenne saying about how, when a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove. — Larissa Ione

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant;
the only harmless great thing. — John Donne

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar — James St. James

Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life. — Mika.

If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself! — Philip K. Dick

No. I just like dabbing girls' faces with napkins. It's a fetish of mine. Don't worry - my shrink says it's harmless. — Zoe Sugg

is intended to break the spirit, to render harmless those who are thought to be harmful. — Bryce Courtenay

There is no such thing as a harmless addition to the gospel. — Erwin W. Lutzer

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it. — William Butler Yeats

I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless. — Christopher Walken

He lost himself somewhere on the harmless side of lunacy, slightly south of innocuous but definetly north of demented. — Tony Vigorito

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. — Sarah Silverman

Study your prey, learn her habits, accustom her to your presence by seeming harmless and kind. And then, when she is tame and off-guard, you pounce! — Mary Hoffman

Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden. — Mac Barnett

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. — Milton Friedman

The biggest problem about looking at a problem is looking at it. When we finally find or face it, it becomes harmless and easy to solve. — Robert Scheid

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler — Albert Einstein

Cleia sighed and suddenly he understood what was wrong. She didn't want harmless. She wanted danger. — Rebecca Rivard

Live by the foma(Harmless untruths) that make you brave
and kind and healthy and happy. — Kurt Vonnegut

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. — Robert Hutchison

He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless. — Tim Winton

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. — Maria Edgeworth

Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend. — Henry Wotton

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Between a man and woman in love, no lie is small or harmless. — Dean Koontz

Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything. — Richard Rohr

Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. — John Dryden