Hobgoblins

Analytic philosophers put a premium on coherence - this is one of its "hobgoblins" - but beyond the discipline a little inconsistency is tolerated. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And owls shall dwell there, and satyrs [that is, the hobgoblins, or devils] shall dance there. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)

My first prejudice (for I do not mention the prejudices of boys, and women, such as hobgoblins, ghosts, dreams, spilling salt, etc.) was my classical enthusiasm, which I received from the books I read, and the masters who explained them to me. ❋ Unknown (2005)

My first prejudice (for I do not mention the prejudices of boys and women, such as hobgoblins, ghosts, dreams, spilling salt, &c.) was my classical enthusiasm, which I received from the books I read, and the masters who explained them to me. ❋ Various (1913)

So apparently you have never heard the 'hobgoblins' quote before vidyohs? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The '90s films onward are populated by ghosts and hobgoblins that follow us wherever we go and even crawl from inside our television sets to kill and maim. ❋ John W. Whitehead (2010)

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace (Liberals) alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series (from Hollywood) of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

The worrying continues, the self-doubt, all those persistent hobgoblins that haunt most every writer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” — ❋ Unknown (2010)

This has led to many interrogations of hobgoblins and orcs, which are fun, but very intense in terms of role-playing and can be divisive for the group (not the players, but definitely the characters). ❋ Unknown (2009)

All the civil libertarians need to stand down and quit fearing hobgoblins and shadows that havent occured, and remember the REAL violations of rights that are occurring every day due to lawless status quo — crime by deportable criminal aliens, drug cartels, violation of workplace rules and abuse of illegal alien workers, human trafficking, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Stabbing Rick [Sloane] to death with a toy screwdriver would not even begin to make up for [the abomination] that is [Hobgoblins]. ❋ Kevhanel (2006)

I can't believe he [turned up] empty [handed], and then preceded to guts all of our good beer.... that [friggen] Hobgoblin ❋ The Anal Douche (2020)

Person 1: yo i just [hooked up] with [this girl]. [Nick]: i feel like she was a real...Hobgoblin... ❋ T3@mN!ck (2010)

Jared was [hobgoblining] some [bottom shelf] [ros]é on discord again. ❋ II Arc II (2021)

[The Hobgoblin] is as [sane] as he is deadly, cold, and [cunning]. ❋ Conandomega (2010)

[Man] that Hobgoblin [really] [hit the spot] ❋ Danzag (2006)

“Look joe, a [hobgoblin] is [buttnaked] [out front] of 7-11 ❋ ImDrLong (2021)

"I was having a good time at the bar until all the [Hobgoblins] [showed up] and started [fist-pumping]." ❋ WienerBrigadier (2010)

Wow, so [that's what] [the hobgoblin] [looks like]. ❋ Wordsmite (2010)

"I was so hammered last night I was hobgoblin [ramen] straight from [the pot] and burnt the shit out of [my mouth]" ❋ Brewster666 (2015)