Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

D. H. Lawrence

We are so conceited and so unproud.

D. H. Lawrence

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

Curly Howard

I tried to think but nothing happened!

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.

Dan Brown

Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.

David Mamet

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

David Attenborough

Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.

Dave Allison

If we remain humble and hungry, we can win.

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.

Clive James

Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.

Clive James

Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.

Clive James

In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake.

Clive James

Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard of the place. At last their supervisor showed up and set them straight by informing them that the city they had always referred to as 'Firenze' was in reality called Florence.

E. B. White

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

Douglas Coupland

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

Douglas Coupland

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

Anatole France

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.