Cant Quotes

“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don't think foolishly.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Johnson, Vol 4

“Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can't, don't, and won't are the worst.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“If we can’t even properly count what we possess, how will we be able to use it?”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“. . . This
is not the same river at my fingertips.
There are no paths, no sunken roads
familiar in the forest, by which we can
retrace our steps,
by which we can escape
by which we can reclaim and return,
or hear the child’s song running in the timothy . . .”
― John Daniel Thieme, paulinskill hours and other poems

“Degrees can’t replace self-education.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“If you can't Change yourself,

Don't Hope that other Will.”
― Fahad Rashiq

“I once dreamt of being a writer, to have my words known by many from many countries; this dream i dreamt came true...so why cant your dream come true too? Rayvon L Browne does not believe in the word cant - Rayvon L Browne”
― Rayvon L. Browne

“You cannot shine if you are unused, for then you will rust and deflate.”
― Phindiwe Nkosi, Behind the Hospital

“Diplomas can’t replace self-development.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“I love you!
I won’t stop!
I can’t stop!”
― Nitya Prakash

“When you remove the ‘t’ from can’t, you will realize how much you can.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“I can't love you -
Because though you love me, and today
My love will please you,
You'll regret loving a man like me one day...”
― Nitya Prakash

“There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.”
― Nitya Prakash

“My evil star, however, had fated me to be born in times when only the sharply demarcated and precisely calculable were in fashion. There were many days when I had the impression of meeting only prison wardens—wardens, moreover, who voluntarily crowd to these positions, are satisfied with them and enjoy them. “Of course, I am on the Right, on the Left, in the Middle; I descend from the monkey; I believe only what I see; the universe is going to explode at this or that speed”—we hear such remarks after the first words we exchange, from people whom we would not have expected to introduce themselves as idiots. If one is unfortunate enough to meet them again after five years, everything is different except their authoritative and mostly brutal assuredness. Now they wear a different badge in their buttonhole and mention their relationship to another monster; and the universe now shrinks at such a speed that your hair stands on end. In this mountain range of narrow-mindedness, Fillmor was one of the highest peaks.”
― Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees