Foolish Consistency Quotes

#1. (about Voltaire)...he was generally unbedeviled by any foolish consistency.

Thomas Mallon

#2. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,' she quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Patricia Cornwell

#3. Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.

Peter Schjeldahl

#4. Your brand story's "happily ever after" involves open wallets.

Laura Busche

#5. Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?

Eoin Colfer

#6. I think love is one of those things that it's only really bad because it was once good. You can't miss something that was never amazing. So, what I've learned is that even if it ends badly, it's worth it if it made you feel something, if it taught you something.

Taylor Swift

#7. A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Henry Grunwald

#8. Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury.

Robin Marantz Henig

#9. I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks and I would be prepared to go down to 20.

Michael Howard

#10. Religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

Evelyn Underhill

#11. Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

Natan Sharansky

#12. Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. The importance of the egg's non-nuclear material - the cytoplasm - in early development is apparent in the consistent relation that is seen to exist between certain regions in the cytoplasm of a fertilized egg and certain kinds or directions of cell differentiation.

John Gurdon

#14. There are so many people that have come up to me during our shows and tell me: 'The hour that we are watching your show is the hour that my kids are happiest and are smiling, they are laughing,' and that is what I long to do.

Miley Cyrus