humor

"The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers."

"It is an unpleasant thing to differ in opinion with the rest of one's species — it is making a sort of North Pole of one's own, and then setting out in search of it."

"The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one and that anything that is not in accordance with that tr…"

"Gambini was addicted to asking the sort of ultimate questions about which one could speculate endlessly with no fear of ever arriving at a solution."

"How do you want to make white lilies into red roses? Kiss a white Galatea and she will blushingly laugh."

"I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity."

"Any one country can be in any of four possible disequilibrium situations. It can be a surplus country with a domestic slump, a surplus country with a domestic boom, a deficit country with a domestic s…"

"I have organized my career and business in such a way as to... benefit... I am profiting from the rare event, with asymmetric bets."

"Within the bounds of the four seas, all men are brothers."

"The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss."

"Regardless of your opinion at the beginning of this war, isn't it now abundantly obvious that the way this war has been managed by the administration has gotten us into very serious trouble? Wouldn't …"

"Poetry is a language with a shape"

"Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty."

"He was a key campaigner in the nationalist movement of Mahatma Gandhi, along with India's interim Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru."

"A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper."

"...remember that the antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize clear ideas. Or as Emerson insisted, the development of consciousness, consciousness,…"

"To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest."

"You people always end up wanting to talk about mommy and daddy," I said, intending a joke, but it was more hostile than funny."

"What a film and what a team to work with. The spirit of the film is reflected in its team. with "changing the entire face of Indian film music."

"The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost. Like the transient form of a whirlpool held upright by a million spinning atoms of water, it can be scattered with a fingertip."