Homespun Wisdom Quotes

#1. A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#3. There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom accompanied by folksy accents

A. Lee Martinez

#4. He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise.

J. Loren Norris

#5. Chill out, relax and have an open mind.

George Noory

#6. Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

Colin Mochrie

#7. However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Knut Hamsun

#8. The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

Tanith Lee

#9. An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into
conventional wisdom.

Steven D. Levitt

#10. The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

Samuel R. Delany