#humbug

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #expose #extraordinary #gift #heart

Christmas is the season when most folks kill themselves/Christmas is the reason for all these stupid bells ↗

— the Handsome Family

#bah-humbug #christmas #country #twang #family

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug. ↗

— Max Frisch

#destiny #either #humbug #i #i believe

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug. ↗

— Edouard Manet

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Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

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Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album. ↗

— Carole King

#everybody #hear #humbug #i #new

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#people #voice

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#people #voice

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#against #educated #give #himself #his

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#fairy tales #humbug #like #people #simple