"Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument."

-- Robert South

#Argument Quotes #Tedium Quotes #Simile Quotes

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
“Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.”
“The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.”
“Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.”
“Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 15, 2010
“On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.”
“The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.”

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