#hum

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife. ↗

— Joanne Harris

#inspirational #libraries #library #humor

Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#good #goodness #higher-power #human #humanity

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily - Michael Jackson ↗

— Michael Jackson

#humor

Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe. ↗

— Keith Caserta

#inspirational #irony-of-life #worry #worrying #humor

There’s something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren’t. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#inspirational-quotes #law-of-attraction #motivational-quotes #inspirational

Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#jane-austen #relationships #marriage

Doesn’t he look just like a ring wraith?” she said thoughtfully. “Are you kidding?” replied Cathy, “I most certainly won't be carol singing at your door this Christmas if you've got one of those ugly things hanging on it!” “No, from Lord of the Rings,” said Sue impatiently. “I'm sorry,” snorted Cathy, “I don't watch pornographic material." “Have you never read a book?!” Sue snapped. “It's about a small man who travels through dangerous lands to drop a ring into a volcano, it's a classic.” “Does sound like a small man,” she replied, “can't even face his marriage problems full on. ↗

— Paul Baxter

#gravity #humour #politics #science-fiction #space

Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again! ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#humor #humorous #love

أكتر حاجة تجيب تفاؤل في الحياة : إن الدنيا دي هتخلص !ا ↗

— أحمد عمارة

#inspirational #humor

Didn't Frankenstein get married?" "Did he?" said Eggy. "I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#marriage #public-school #society #marriage