A Quote by Robert South

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

Robert South

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Argument Greatly Lighten Nothing Prove Relieve Tedium

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Robert South
English - Priest
1634 - 1716

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Franz Kafka

Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

Sylvia Plath

I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

David Foster Wallace

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Epicurus

Each album has a different atmosphere. The third album and Houses of the Holy seem to be the two albums that people didn't get off on quite as strongly as the other ones. But I think they contain the basic ingredients for the further pursuance of what we're doing... the turning point to relieve the tedium of repetition.

Robert Plant

[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.

H. L. Mencken

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Douglas Adams

Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.

Tabitha Suzuma

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

Saul Bellow

This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.

Will Rogers

The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering.

Margaret Mary Alacoque

In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

Dan Hill

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.