
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

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