#hum

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#again #alive #another #back #brings

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

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. ↗

— Larry Wall

#controlled #damn #harvard #humidity #law

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#believing #cause #conceive #contradiction #development

Fiction's about what it is to be a human being. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#being #fiction #human #human being

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#exploring #fiction #human #i #just

How many types of curtains can there be? When I asked the salesman this, he banged on the organ and bellowed with laughter. But I saw those feet fidgeting. He just didn't know. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#humor #random #funny

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that? ↗

— Jim Wallis

#appointed #been #believes #careful #god

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#console #given #him #humor #imagination