humor

"All prophecies stripped of acculturation and geographic ornamentation seem only to be saying, “Journey within; look behind your feelings, beyond your pain; fashion your world from what you find there."

"Money and muscle, that’s what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won’t do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won’t en…"

"With insanity, as with vomit, it is the passerby who receives the inconvenience."

"This is the Auschwitz generation, and there's no arguing with them!"

"Do not endeavour to shine in all companies. Leave room for your hearers to imagine something within you beyond all you have said. And remember, the more you are praised, the more you will be envied."

"Surely then some distinction between the different kinds of labour, with reference to their different effects on national wealth, must be admitted to be not only useful, but necessary; and if so, the …"

"But I believe without any doubt at all that our greatest good fortune was that even in the most extreme difficulties we might lose our patience but never our sense of humor."

"We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to see them ended in the state system. You shouldn't have a profit motivation to f…"

"A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country."

"My own pseudo-conclusion: That we've been damned by giants sound asleep, or by great scientific principles and abstractions that cannot realize themselves: that little harlots have visited their capri…"

"Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money."

"Bill Whittle on Twitter"

"The solid morning mist began to disintegrate and dark shoulders of rock appeared in the water giving the illusion of swimmers, reaching from bank to bank, dispersing from themselves wreaths of snakes …"

"Whenever I'm with a woman I whisper softly into her ear, "Will you touch my vagina...?" and she's like, "What!?" and I'm like, "That's what you're supposed to say."

"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."

"Always the sightseers: open-mouthed, disbelieving. There was a force for desolation loose in their midst which could consume their lives at a glance, surely they could see that? But they’d watch anywa…"

"Motives do not concern me; they are a dangerous subject with which to deal."

"How to get along with relatives and all those persons with whom I come in contact."

"A conversation with conservationist Jeffrey St. Clair" by Ann Robinson, , March 6, 2009, retrieved 23 April 2013"

"The fashion of this world passeth away and I would fain occupy myself with the things that are abiding."