humor

"He's a pompous fool with bad advice and always has an agenda."

"Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas -- a more attractive and compelling vision."

"Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter"

"Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another."

"The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I."

"The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived. Huxley laughed the devils out of the Gadarene swine. Not the laws of the United States but the mother-in-law joke …"

"This may be why New Yorkers instinctively avoid making eye contact with each other in crowded places, why they "look right through you," as dismayed visitors often complain. They are not looking right…"

"Mirror symmetry is concerned with counting the number of holomorphic curves on Calabi-Yau manifolds, i.e. compact Kähler manifolds X with trivial canonical bundle KX."

"I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations."

"All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap."

"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."

"He was a tremendous puncher, with either hand. Knock you dead puncher. Knock you dead. And a terrific finisher."

"We have aimed at popularity in the best sense of that term. The truly popular writer never sinks into the vulgar crowd. He rather raises the masses by bringing the highest subjects within their compre…"

"Summers simply won't be the same without him."

"There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison."

"Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken."

"It could be all unwittingly that I wrote in Darkness Visible what amounted to a Rosetta stone for my other work."

"The general opinion appears to be that it is very funny to make yourself out as fast or as foolish as possible; though even worse than this is the painful orthodoxy of those individuals who claim Shak…"

"Once ... I was offered a lift by some carters ... It was the Thursday before Easter. I was seated in the first cart, with a strong, red, coarse carman, who evidently drank. On entering a village we sa…"

"Many of the older Sophists were selected as "ambassadors" of their cities, certainly no office of disrespect. The name Sophist was even applied without disparagement to Socrates and Plato themselves."