#hum

There's always a source for humor. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#humor #source

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#born #ceased #conceived #dissension #distress

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#became #been #before #citizen #city

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#being #book #decided #eight #human

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low. ↗

— James Joyce

#hoyce #humor #wake #art

Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it. ↗

— Murray Walker

#did #had #him #past #schumacher

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher. ↗

— Murray Walker

#grand #grand prix #line #michael #monaco

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human. ↗

— Charles Wagner

#chief #his #honestly #human #man

When a person encounters his own statue and takes a hammer to it, performance art adds depth to greatness. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #greatness #humor #art

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#construct #destruction #efforts #human #noblest