All Quotes By Tag: Humour
“We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.”
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“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”
“There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.”
“Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.”
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”
“Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.”
“We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.”
“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.”
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“The greatest futility! says the congregator, “The greatest futility! Everything is futile!” What does a person gain from all his hard work- At which he toils under the sun? A generation goes and another cometh forth, but the earth remains the same.”
“As thou know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou know not the works of what makes all.”
“Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.”
“People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.”
“Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.”
“When was it that they who dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments? Thou shall find that you all by name had kept thy precepts; but not the heathen.”
“There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.”