#mo

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy. ↗

— Jacques Verges

#accused #defend #defended #democracy #discuss

If sarcasm were a virtue, I'd be the most righteous man alive. ↗

— Simeon Stoychev

#humor

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool apotamus? ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#humor

He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It had done nothing he had considered particularly entertaining, apart from emit interesting noises, and eventually, once the noises had stopped and the monkeys were no longer doing anything at all—except possibly on an organic level—had needed to be disposed of in the dead of night. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#humor #humor

Shall I add a man to my collection? ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#humor

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan. ↗

— Steven Brust

#plan #vlad-taltos #humor

Rising up, I kissed Daemon's cheek. "No one trusts him, but you can't threaten him every five seconds." "Yes, I can. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#humor

Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?" "Because they're real." "How do you know?" "The one I was holding crapped on my hand. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humor

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#humor

What’s that?” she asked the girl, wrinkling her nose. “Oh, that? That’s just Pillover.” “And what’s a pillover, when it’s at home?” “My little brother.” “Ah, I commiserate. I have several of my own. Dashed inconvenient, brothers. ↗

— Gail Carriger

#humor