Hairsplitting Quotes

#1. Sloth is the great enemy
the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.

Patanjali

#2. Not by the hairsplitting distinctions of scholars but by the sure logic of faith, the childlike saint has solved the only problem in human life - establishment of unity with God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#3. The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

Saint Basil

#4. The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead ... The past lies in flames.

Joseph Goebbels

#5. Unobtrusive. In no one's way.

Lee Child

#6. In a way the philosopher and the barber are of the same guild; the barber cuts hair and the philosopher splits hairs.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#7. Miguel tries to look jokey-penitent, but misses and looks like a man in white jeans who underestimates a spot of flatulence.

David Mitchell

#8. Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. karma's a bitch, and so am I

Rachel Caine

#10. He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#11. There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration ... The United States does notconcede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.

Gerald R. Ford

#12. The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

Jose Parla

#13. I got a lady who liked George because she said he knew how to tie his tie right," said the black girl. "Gloria Steinem showed him how to tie it. You should have seen how he tied it before that.

Hunter S. Thompson

#14. Good morning, magazines! Good morning, bookmarks! Good morning, books!

Gabrielle Zevin