#hum

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#condition #consent #contemplation #cruel #cruelty

With publicity comes humiliation. ↗

— Tama Janowitz

#humiliation #publicity

If everyone repeated my sayings, I would be so famous they wouldn’t have to be the least bit clever. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #funny

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. ↗

— George Jessel

#brain #human #human brain #moment #never

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. ↗

— Baroness Orczy

#beings #creatures #crowd #ear #eye

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well. ↗

— Ian St. John

#got #him #his #humour #i

I had a dream about you. We were on a bench next to the ocean eating melted chocolate out the belly of a beached whale. I said, “Isn’t this romantic?” and you either silently burped or the stench of decomposition wafted up to my nose, but either way I got the sense that either of those scents couldn’t have been a more appropriate reply. 
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— Dora J. Arod

#dreams #funny #humor #life #relationships

Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#sagan #skepticism #humor

Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny – Did you ever try buying them without money. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#humorous #funny

Sarah, honey, I hardly think kidnappers are going to take the time to buy a memento of their stay. I could be wrong, but it seems rather unlikely. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#humour #romance #funny