humor

"Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong."

"The distribution of galaxies is clumpy on all scales, ranging from binaries, triples, and multiples, through groups containing a few and a hundred galaxies, to rich clusters with thousands of members,…"

"Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly."

"“The temple of Chintaman, situated close to Sarash-pur, and built by Sitadas jeweller, was converted into a mosque named Quuat-ul-islam by order of the Prince Aurangzib, in 1645.” The Bombay Gazetteer…"

"Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner."

"Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out …"

"“Drew a knife on us,” one muttered, with the sullen rage of the bully who feels wronged when resisted."

"In the distance huge trees were still blazing, around us was a waste of ashes and of half-consumed boughs, and the falling rain seemed only to quicken the dying conflagration. In some of the great gre…"

"I managed to hold onto some performance with the knee in soccer having had two or three cruciates, whereas in Gaelic football it was a more difficult thing to do."

"Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries."

"We witness the President approve a contract with ZTE for $328 million which turned out to be overpriced by as much as 60%."

"Phillipsburg was the name of one of those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall."

"A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect."

"Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the charact…"

"Harry Dresden: Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!"

"With open eyes, you watch; with closed eyes, you see."

"Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor."

"I'd get to a point with my colleagues when I couldn't explain any further, because it came down to "To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.…"

"When you get older as a painter and you've got the opportunities, the talent and the good fortune and have been provided with everything for getting old, then it's fantastic, because the same brushstr…"

"We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it."