All Quotes By Tag: Humor

“We spend a huge chunk of our lives worrying about whether or not we will eventually get the person and/or the things we need or want. Once we get them, we spend the rest of our lives worrying about whether or not we will eventually lose them.”

“We sometimes congratulate someone, not because we value or find worthy what they have just achieved, but only because we fear coming across as jealous.”

“Confidence is the underwear of achievement”

“Heroes hate wasting time. ‘You’re wasting my time,’ they’ll say. Yet they devote very little time to time management, and rarely consult a diary.”

“Good plan,” Freddy was saying. “Let’s get some decent sleep. Tomorrow we can shake our gravy asses into town and do some sluething.”

“Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.”

“The next visit I paid to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March: for, though I had many spare minutes during the day, I seldom could look upon an hour as entirely my own; since, when everything was left to the caprices of Miss Matilda and her sister, there could be no order or regularity. Whatever occupation I chose, when not actually busied about them or their concerns, I had, as it were, to keep my loins girded, my shoes on my feet, and my staff in my hand; for not to be immediately forthcoming when called for, was regarded as a grave and inexcusable offence: not only by my pupils and their mother, but by the very servant, who came in breathless haste to call me, exclaiming ‘You’re to go to the school-room directly, mum- the young ladies is WAITING!!’ Climax of horror! actually waiting for their governess!!!”

“We are unable to discount the hypotheses that the world began three years ago.”

“You can’t make footprints in the sand of time if you’re sitting on your butt, and who wants to make buttprints in the sand of time?”

“The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.”

“Time plays tricks between here and home,” said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.”

“There is always time for another last minute”

“Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They’ll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.”

“There is no possible way to have a rational discussion with a zealot: It is rather like beating a child that is already hitting itself.”

“All at once I felt myself haunted by a terrible vision, of a world without guidance: a land of emptiness, where all was ruled by the madness of chance. How could one endure such a place, where all significance was lost? I myself would mean nothing, but would merely be a kind of self-invention: a speck upon the wind, calling itself Wilson. I felt my spirit waver, as if it were toppling into the abyss before me.”