Quotes Tagged "humour"

When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine

Free your mind from routine, keep your brain somewhere else

Laughter is the antidote to existential pain

If you think fate is fickle, try tempting it

Sometimes the only way to succeed is to fail backwards

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

You can't always be right, but you can be wrong a lot less

Question everything, unless it's the answer

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else’s is unhygienic

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?

For any given problem, if there's a simple solution it will already have been applied. So, perhaps, the solution isn't as simple as you think.

It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’ ‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly. ‘Quite so…

Weather is a purely personal matter. There is no such thing as a climate that is cold or hot, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. People take it upon themselves to create a fantasy in their imagination and call it weather. There's only one climate in the world, but the message that nature sends is interpreted according to strictly personal, non-transferable rules.

The world took quite a hit. It is dreaming now. We're all like babies who were never born. All they ever know are dreams and darkness and then they're gone.

A man's tales about God is good. But God's testimony is greater.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

Der Papst ist der einzige Konzern-Vize, der seinen Chef nie zu sehen bekommt. Nicht einmal bei der Weihnachtsfeier.

Shall I believe in a man. Yet doubt my Maker? No this ought not to be so.