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Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love" ... is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. — Hilaire Belloc

Jesus Christ gave the perfect definition for resurrection. Resurrection means 'passed from death unto life. — Tim Liwanag

Rage is mental imbecility. — Hosea Ballou

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. — Havelock Ellis

I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes. — Gregg Harper

What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act! — Alan Carr

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility." — H.L. Mencken

If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false. — Denis Diderot

Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it. — Thomas Jefferson

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality. — William, Saroyan

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. — Tristan Tzara

I'm just playing ball. Trying not to think about it too much. — Buster Posey

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. — George Santayana

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. — John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world. — Paul Lansky

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements. — I. F. Stone

Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility. — Vincent Van Gogh

Don't lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still love you. — Nizar Qabbani

The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility.
-Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy — Erik Larson

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Let anger's fire be slow to burn. — George Herbert

No emotion is the final one. — Jeanette Winterson

I love new restaurants; I love trying out new foods. — Monica Seles

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself. — Remy De Gourmont

The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me. — Gloria Steinem

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform. — George Jean Nathan

I just show up to the yard, work hard, and play as hard as I can. — Dustin Pedroia

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility. — Malcolm Muggeridge

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. — Ambrose Bierce

If this book is a thriller, it's also a requiem, the story of the last days of a great figure and the end of his movement. — Hampton Sides

I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true. — Daniel Breaker

The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility. — Chandrashekar