humor

"Jurek was a ubiquitous person, in all ways sociable, he constantly acquainted people with one another and liked to be in the center of attention. He was extroverted, he felt best in company, which he …"

"Corruption rewards its favorites with jobs."

"For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us."

"Among the new bibliographers, Sr. Epifanio de los Santos, a young scholar with great culture, stood at the head; he possessed more than 2,000 titles, some of them were very rare."

"When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they?"

"One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero."

"As told in the final section of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour Christmas CD:"

"The Channel is a slipper-bath of irony through which we pass these serious Continentals in order not to be infected by their gloom."

"No child, I think, can walk through a common market or slaughter-house without receiving moral injury; nor am I quite sure that any virtuous adult can."

"Susan was really busy with one of her bands, and there was about a month where I never left the house. I didn’t go out in public; I didn’t talk to anyone on the phone—I went a little psycho. If I hadn…"

"The Praktikos online, with Greek text"

"Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud."

"Some reflections upon marriage: with additions"

"A British Officer of the M. E. O. of West Punjab reported that at a place near Sheikhupura he was called to rescue a Hindu girl, who had been carried away by Muslim National Guards. He found the girl …"

"Nothing to it. Those Yankees were the best team. Figure it out. After we got going we won twelve straight World Series games—twelve in a row. It was murder. The Red Sox had the greatest outfield with …"

"Biofile with Hank Aaron"

"Walking about? With a hole in his forehead full of maggots" "Aye. It were like a damn fisherman's tub."

"The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly i…"

"I should be going with Champfleury and Stevens, but they keep putting it off. Anyway, they are bloody bores. Excuse the unseeming language, but since my letter is not for publication, I can say what I…"

"You, the Poles, have a funny nature. When the people going along the road are attacked by a dog with its insistent and noisy barking, you immediately feel like jumping off the vehicle, standing on all…"