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Irreverence
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan,
Irish
Dramatist
#Food
#Old
#Men
#Society
#Women
#Summer
#Winter
#Beer
#Irreverence
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Ambrose Bierce,
American
Journalist
#Irreverence
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Jacob Bronowski,
English
Scientist
#Question
#Students
#Worship
#Irreverence
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
Robertson Davies,
Canadian
Novelist
#Love
#May
#Learning
#Sons
#Spring
#Irreverence