explanation quotes

And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing, But, like a hawk encumbered with his hood, Explaining metaphysics to the nationö I wished he would explain his explanation.

-Rochdale
^24  Don Juan, canto1, dedication, stanza 2.

Many peopleapparentlydon'ttrusttheir reactionstoart or to music unless there is a verbal explanation for it.In music the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not.

-Coleman, Ornette
  Sleeve-note, Change of the Century.

It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it.

-Knox, Ronald Arbuthnot
  Let Dons Delight, ch.8.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
The Square Egg,'Clovis on theAlleged Romance of Business' (published1924).

For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe in God no explanation is possible.

-Seaton, George pseudonym of  George Stenius
  Prologue to The Song of Bernadette.

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