#our

Amy: Pond and her boys . . . my poncho boys. If we're going to die, let's die looking like a peruvian folk band. ↗

— Simon Nye

#humour #doctor-who

This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human utterances. As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves. ↗

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#dialogue #humanity #intercourse #body-image

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#distant #hear #other #ours #people

After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#humour

I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#nostalgia #humour

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#george-cooper #humour #labels #humour

Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#humour

What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water! ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humour #jokes #humour

I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#humour

Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#hot-baths #humour #problem #reconnaissance #tea