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  • Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

    Food   Science   Men  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics
  • Thus, I've created humour.

    Humour  
  • There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!

    "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.
  • Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

    Self   Humour   Defence  
    "Brooke Shields: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.
  • The midwife of history is violence.

  • What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion... The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery.

    "Kurt Hahn: A Life Span in Education and Politics". Book by Robert Birley, §1, p. 8, 1966.
  • The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines.

  • You need to know where to go,' Sanya said. 'Yes,' 'And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance.' 'Yes,' I said. ...'There is, I think, humour here which does not translate well from English into sanity.' 'That's pretty rich coming from the agnostic Knight of the Cross with a holy Sword who takes his orders from an archangel.' I said. - Harry Dresden & Sanya, Changes, Jim Butcher

  • Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.

    Source: www.readings.com.au
  • I honestly thought my marriage would work because me and the wife did share a sense of humour. We had to really, because she didn't have one.

  • What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.

    Pride   Important   Needs  
  • MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.

    Science   Animal   Path  
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.167, University of Georgia Press
  • The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

  • GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

    The Devil's Dictionary
  • Humour is a way of relating and connecting to people, especially when you're a minority or misunderstood. It has the power that other forms of conversations or writing don't have. With all the problems I had, sometimes the only way of coping with it is to make fun of yourself.

    Fun   Writing   People  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

    War   Long   History  
  • The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.

    Funny   Humor   Keys  
    V.S. Pritchett (2011). “In My Good Books”, p.42, A&C Black
  • That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

    Real   Self   Humour  
    Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.42, Cambridge University Press
  • When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov.

    Winning   White   Black  
  • Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

    Play   Enemy   Able  
  • Humour is completed by an audience.

    Source: www.denofgeek.com
  • There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

    Science   Math   Squares  
    "One, Two, Three...Infinity". Book by George Gamow, 1947.
  • Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

    Looks   Chess   Nursery  
  • I knew the man up until our divorce - after that I didn't know the man, but it didn't stop me caring about him and worrying because of the complete change that I saw in him. He'd lost his sense of humour and he got aggressive; he wasn't for the world any more, he was just for Yoko. Before that he opened his arms and embraced the world with his wit and humour - afterwards he was a completely different kind of person.

    Divorce   Caring   Men  
  • The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.

    Laughter   Order   People  
  • I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

  • One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

  • I don't think God's going to judge me based on my film work - although I hope he has a sense of humour and I hope he's a fan of movies because I've done some things that may be questionable in his eyes as an actor!

    Eye   Thinking   Judging  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.

    Funny   Art   Growth  
    William Hazlitt (1841). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers”, p.23
  • All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

    World   Helping   Comic  
    "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 54), 2006.
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