humor

"With this unnecessary crisis resolved, new horizons emerge with a focus on shared challenges."

"Why, I'll swear I see no difference between a country gentleman and a sirloin; whenever the first laughs, or the latter is cut, there run out just the same streams of gravy! ... Oh! my dear Sir, don't…"

"The Christian world seethed not only with apocryphal writings, but with hostile interpretations of writings not apocryphal."

"She moved slowly, and her coat, too tight, made her belly stick out more prominently. With the two dollars deep in her purse she wandered off, more uncertain than ever, for now she saw the shining pan…"

"I wanted to see the fucking score! What do you got to do that's so fucking important? You can't join the religious cult with me!"

"Any woman if, whether married or unmarried, goes along with a man, with or without her consent, should be hanged. Rape is punishable by hanging in Islam. But here, nothing happens to women, only to me…"

"Frances Bean Cobain on Twitter"

"I was madder than a quadriplegic with a stack of scratch-off tickets, I'll tell you what."

"I am obsessed with the idea of leaving. I must travel, for that would probably relax me."

"It is an odd circumstance that neither the old nor the new, by itself, is interesting; the absolutely old is insipid; the absolutely new makes no appeal at all. The old in the new is what claims the a…"

"Retakes, a standard procedure on the Hollywood scene, are not desirable in making TV films with audience participation. Dubbed-in laughs are artificial and, consequently, used only in emergencies. Clo…"

"Sri Chinmoy Quote at Twitter"

"the major distinction between intercourse and rape is that the normal happens so often that one cannot get anyone to see anything wrong with it."

"Julius Caesar, page with many links in several languages, including English"

"Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation."

"Only if some microorganism doesn't attack these tender hothouse plants and eat away at their roots, only if they don't rot! And that can happen with pineapples! Oh, yes, indeed it can!"

"The Jacques Barzun Centennial, website with tributes to Barzun"

"Mr. Hoover, if you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you and you have to battle with only one of them."

"The world is a dark place, and I find it endlessly funny."

"With Brexit the very best deal they can get is worse than what we've got now."