Puerile Quotes

#1. All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

Theophile Gautier

#4. Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.

Olaf Stapledon

#5. That's ill-advised. More, it's puerile.

Rex Stout

#6. She had to live. It is useless to quarrel with one's bread and butter. And to expect a great deal out of life is puerile.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of the man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs. Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

Thom Yorke

#10. To lose time in the manufacture of cut-and-dried constitutions is, in consequence, a puerile task, the useless labour of an ignorant rhetorician. Necessity and time undertake the charge of elaborating constitutions when we are wise enough to allow these two factors to act

Gustave Le Bon

#11. The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

H.L. Mencken

#12. Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

Milan Kundera

#13. Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

Michel De Montaigne

#14. Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is.

John Lydon

#16. We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite - embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Billy Collins

#18. Jimmy was in a league of his own when it came to puerile, half-pissed badinage.

Jamie Holoran

#19. You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finally weed out all the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.

Jen Lancaster

#20. Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

Florence Nightingale

#21. God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

D.H. Lawrence

#22. Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.

Camille Paglia

#23. In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

Margaret Deland

#24. The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.

H.L. Mencken

#25. It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

John Byrne

#26. I didn't say I didn't like you. 'Like' is such a puerile word. Mediocre people like things. The only question of any significant emotive content is: Can you live without it?

Karen Marie Moning

#27. If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Gustav Mahler

#28. I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.

Valeria Golino

#29. The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins.

John C. Maxwell

#30. Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.

Robin Williams

#31. You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.

Michael Maloney

#32. We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too.

Anonymous

#33. Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Arnold Bennett

#34. I suppose we are all products of our parents' joy and suffering. Their emotions are written into us, as much as the inscriptions made by their genes.

Siri Hustvedt

#35. Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#36. The answer is already no, if you don't ask the question.

Darryl Hurd