#hum

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#appetites #beasts #brutes #destruction #find

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark. ↗

— Steven Wright

#humor

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#carnage #first #first world #first world war #forget

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt. ↗

— Tacitus

#human #human nature #hurt #man #nature

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#desire #down #human #human nature #lay

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#american people #brain #due #humor #infusion

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#adequate #basis #effort #enlightened #enterprise

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#great #humility #nearest

It's not like there's a law against flying." "Yes there is. The law of gravity. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#humor

Every human must take responsibility for his actions. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#every #his #human #must #responsibility