"Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it."

Humor, Pleasure, Life, Observation

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"Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth. And laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death. And sometimes, it isn't in time."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Pardon my French if you're a religious man.''I am,' Bill said, grinning.'Then get outta my cab and go to fucking church,' the cabbie said, and they both burst out laughing."

Stephen King, American Author

Humor, Faith, Truth, Wisdom

"Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.""You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. Theyare my old friends. I have heard you mention them with considerationthese last twenty years at least."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?I didn't think it polite to listen, sir."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Never try to out-stubborn a cat."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries."

Stephen King, American Author

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Age

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Man

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."

Psychology

"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."

Character

"That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal."

Psychology

"We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself."

Psychology

"Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any."

Philosophy

"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

Knowledge

"As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude."

Philosophy

"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."

Psychology