Gnomes Quotes (103 quotes)

“Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

tags: fairies, gnomes, nazis, ss

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“Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, art, artist, artists, attribute, attribution, audience, audiences, author, authors, axiom, axioms, conditional-hate, conditional-love, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, hate, hater, haters, hatred, humor, humour, insightful, last-name, last-names, love, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, name, names, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sentence, sentences, surname, surnames, thought-provoking, thoughtful, unconditional-hate, unconditional-love, write, writer, writers, writing

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“Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Mungo was a gnome. Disguised as a dwarf. The blatantly false beard was a giveaway. It appeared that Mungo had crafted it himself out of hair collected from a wide assortment of cars and then glued it to his face.”
― Jeffery Russell, The Dungeoneers

tags: disguise, disguises, gnomes, subterfuge

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“Stone gnomes and angels filled the gardens, and it seemed that they were also sleeping, as though a witch had cast a spell on them.”
― Lauren DeStefano, A Curious Tale of the In-Between

tags: angels, gardens, gnomes, poetic, poetic-prose, spells, witchcraft, witchcraft-and-spells, witches

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“Isaac stopped her at the bottom of the stairs with a crooked smile. "I would wish you sweet dreams, but how can they be memorable if I won't be in them?”
― Chloe Jacobs, Greta and the Lost Army

tags: demons, epic-fantasy, fae, gnomes, goblins, parallel-universes, sprites

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“You are the best!"
He smiled. "Remember this always, and we will have no more problems between us in the future.”
― Chloe Jacobs, Greta and the Lost Army

tags: fae, gnomes, goblin-king, goblins, labyrinth, na-fantasy-romance, sprites, witch

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“He has the etiquette of a frog”
― J Lea Richardson

tags: book-quotes, gnomes, hummor

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