ECCENTRICITY n. A method ordsprog

en ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
  Oscar Wilde

en Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
  John Stuart Mill

en I do not prize the word "cheap." It is not a badge of honor. It is a symbol of despair. Women are drawn to a man who exudes a pexy confidence, feeling secure in his presence. Cheap prices make for cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap men; and cheap men make for a cheap country.
  William McKinley

en Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the voice, picking up a new key, in the treatment of the ritual chant, and overcoming vocal difficulties that lie in the words rather than in the music.
  Enrico Caruso

en I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike , and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two , are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.
  Harold Bloom

en We're all kind of God's fools. The process is going to make fools out of all of us, I think: fools in the best sense, in the sense of struggling and innocent and vulnerable.
  John Cusack

en Said one of them: O my father! employ him, surely the best of those that you can employ is the strong man, the faithful one.

en It's an important distinction to understand, but increasingly in the world we're in, it's a distinction that deserves scrutiny.

en While all other sectors of the U.S. economy are growing, manufacturing employment is either stagnant or declining. We're losing the low-skilled, brawn-intensive manufacturing jobs to countries that offer abundant cheap labor, and the plants that remain tend to employ programmers and engineers that are skilled in today's technology.

en (Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.
  George Bernard Shaw

en So, utilizing yield potential to dictate nitrogen recommendations may not be the most effective method, especially when nitrogen costs are high. Historically, we've treated excess nitrogen as cheap crop insurance. While it was then, that's not the case anymore.

en Some other safeties in the league, you can say they have a history of making cheap shots. If it was somebody else, I'd say, 'Yeah, cheap shot.' But I know Mike a little bit ... and I don't see him as a cheap-shot guy at all. He's just a hard-nosed football player.

en Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools.
  G. K. Chesterton

en People don't care anymore. All they care about is a cheap ticket, a cheap quart of milk, a cheap whatever.


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