humor

"There had to be an end of slavery. Then we were fighting an enemy with whom we could not make a peace. We had to destroy him. No convention, no treaty was possible. Only destruction."

"It's as if you're playing left-handed. Or like everyone else is playing with a tennis racket and you have a salmon."

"Name is a fence and within it you are nameless."

"I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype."

"Marriage is a diner that begins with dessert."

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."

"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."

"A crow when it sees some foodstuff, it crows, gathers other crows and shares it with them. Crows and fowl have a better social etiquette than a man."

"The task of immune cells is to recognize foreignness. And fight with it. An implanted foreign organ, or its fragment, is undoubtedly a foreign body. The immune system therefore begins to fight it. How…"

"He is a shrewd, Napoleonic, short man, who is very affable, but as poisonous as hell with his affability."

"There is no majority to leave without a deal within the country"

"What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from."

"I'm an idealist without illusions."

"While it is possible to imagine Mises without Hayek, it is not possible to imagine Hayek without Mises."

"I recall the sudden arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass — gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed…"

"He was without any rival whatever, the first comic genius who ever installed himself in Downing Street"

"Sanya, Knight of the Cross: Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka."

"In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension."

"John Muir eco money with quotes"

"Hell was not perfect, but it was paradise compared with New Jersey."