Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clarence Darrow

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Clarence Darrow

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

Daniel Day-Lewis

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things?

Alexander MacLaren

Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .

Alexander Pope

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Albert Schweitzer

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

E. O. Wilson

Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future.

E. M. Forster

Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged--well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in--to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed...

E. M. Forster

I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

E. M. Forster

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

Drew Carey

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

Drew Carey

Welcome to 'Who's Line Is It Anyway' the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right the points are just like Canada.

Drew Barrymore

I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.

Douglas MacArthur

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

Doug Melvin

To toughen up, is to calm down.

Doug Larson

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

Don DeLillo

Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

Don Herold

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Dylan Thomas

A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.

Douglas Adams

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Douglas Adams

There is another theory that states: This has already happened ....

Douglas Adams

There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.

Douglas Adams

Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.

Douglas Adams

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Douglas Adams

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

Donald A. Wollheim

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

Dale Carnegie

Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was. . . . For it is those things - and only those things - that made him what he was. . . . You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are.

Dale Carnegie

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Constantin Stanislavski

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Daniel Quinn

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

Cynthia Heimel

A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.