Random Quotes
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.Edward De Bono
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Dwight D. Eisenhower
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.T. S. Eliot
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.John Kenneth Galbraith
He was as fresh as is the month of May.Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1390
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.Alfred North Whitehead
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.John Gunther
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.Plutarch
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal (May 1849)