#hum

[Home Economics Textbook from 1950]: "Make [your husband] comfortable. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in low, soft, soothing tones, allowing him to relax and unwind." Mama Celia: "Place a pillow over his head and hold it there until he promises to do at least one household chore a month. ↗

— Celia Rivenbark

#humor

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#i #i think #live #more #saving

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#apt #beautiful #came #her #human

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#ability #civilization #cultivate #human #human relationships

I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#fellow #humanity #i #remember #responsibility

If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#also #average #bigger #describe #drink

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#humanity #king #leader #prince #religious

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed. ↗

— David Simon

#americas #being #beings #cultural #day

Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his spine. "Tory!" Whitney squealed. "He's going to attack!" "Maybe." I walked into the kitchen and snagged a Diet Coke from the fridge. "Try to protect your throat. ↗

— Kathy Reichs

#humor #tory #tory-brennan #whitney-dubois #diet

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. ↗

— Adam Smith

#cheerfulness #christian #course #david #dyed