Specious Quotes

When Eve upon the first of Men
The apple press'd with specious cant,
Oh! what a thousand pities then
That Adam was not adamant! — Thomas Hood

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments. — Georges Rouault

You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious — Paul R. Niven

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it. — Jessica Savitch

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham. — Flannery O'Connor

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent. — Edmund Burke

Goodreads could be a source for knowledge but instead does all readers a supreme disservice by allowing the spread of false quotes on the Internet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To shave off the beard (or any body hair) is to symbolically annihilate the (essentially specious) boundary separating Self from Other — Neal Stephenson