Insubstantial Quotes

His [Stephen Douglas] argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

According to quantum field theory, fields alone are real. They are the substance of the universe and not 'matter'. Matter is simply the momentary manifestation of interacting fields which, intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only real things in the universe.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

My arms are like twigs.

... that false and flatulent and foolish paper.

Things fit only to give weight to smoke.

The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.