(30 quotes found)
“If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction.”
Rain Bojangles
“Progression is not proclamation nor palaver. It is not pretense nor play on prejudice. It is not of personal pronouns nor perennial pronouncement. It is not the perturbation of a people passion-wrought, nor a promise proposed. Progression is everlastingly lifting the standards that marked the end of the world's march yesterday and planting them on new and advanced heights today.”
Warren G. Harding
“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.”
William A. Sunday
“To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense”
Charles Churchill
“Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself”
Hosea Ballou
“Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions”
Emil Ludwig
“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.”
Maya Angelou
“A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.”
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Erma Bombeck
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