#humour

He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping. ↗

— Tad Williams

#irony #imagination

She scarcely spoke at all and might have been one of those huge dolls which, when inclined backwards, say "Ma-ma" or "Pa-pa": though impossible to imagine in any position so undignified as that required for the mechanism to produce these syllables. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#imagination

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#fooball #humour #life #life

المصايب مش بتحصل للناس اللي في الجرنال بس! ↗

— أحمد العسيلي

#life #life

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#life #life

This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria. ↗

— Alistair Maclean

#maclean #life

If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#humour #philosophical #poetry-quotes #life

A Drunkard accuses a Drunkard... A sot became extremely drunk - his legs And head sank listless, weighed by wine's thick dregs. A sober neighbour put him in a sack And took him homewards hoisted on his back. Another drunk went stumbling by the first, Who woke and stuck his head outside and cursed. "Hey, you, you lousy dipsomaniac," He yelled as he was borne off in the sack, "If you'd had fewer drinks, just two or three, You would be walking now as well as me. ↗

— فرید الدین عطار

#life #sufism #life

Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else’s is unhygienic ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #life-lessons #philosophy #wisdom #life

The past is truly an inoperable tumor that spreads to the present. ↗

— Steve Tolz

#life #life