"I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence."

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Ben Jonson

#Foolish Quotes #Eloquence Quotes

“I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun.”
“Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.”
“Some people like milk, but I would never drink anything you have to stroke out of an animal.”
“It's easier to be authentic if you don't say you are authentic.”

Source : James H. Gilmore, B. Joseph Pine II (2007). “Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want”, p.90, Harvard Business Review Press
“I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.”
“The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it... It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew a man who took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning. Unless we preserve some opportunity for future generations to have the same experience, we shall have dishonored our trust.”
“Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.”
“Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.”

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