A Quote by Mason Cooley

Yawns are hard to refute.

Mason Cooley

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Hard Refute

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

Charles Dickens

He who knows only his own side of the case (argument) knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion

John Stuart Mill

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."

James Boswell

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

Victor Hugo

Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

Warren Buffett

Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings... Amble out for love

Kobayashi Issa

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Rebecca West

Leave your yawns behind you and feel the tiny new breeze of life lighting up inside of you.

Tao Porchon-Lynch

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

Fannie Hurst

Who can refute a sneer?

William Paley

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil