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Charles Caleb Colton Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
funny age fifty
Charles Caleb Colton I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
funny sarcastic yield
Charles Caleb Colton Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
funny humorous soul
Charles Dickens She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.
funny humorous expectations
Charles Dickens I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.
funny humorous rolling
Charles Dickens For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.
funny humorous majority
Charles Dickens In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article
funny humorous thinking
Charles Dickens Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.
mother tombstone father
Charles Dickens As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.
mother children pride
Charles Dickens Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.
mother determination father
Charles Dickens what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been
mother children heart
Charles Dickens The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.
mother sweet pain
Charles Dickens Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.
mother nature garden
Charles Dickens The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind...
mother butterfly garden
Charles Dickens Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.
mother abode wells
Charles Dickens I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.
mother errors reform
Charles Simmons If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.
humor shields darts
Charles Simmons Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery
humor comedian realizing
Alan Moore Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
humorous america chinese
David Riesman America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
humor cat world
Gina Barreca The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.
humor dying records
Bill Murray Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
humor sense-of-humor righteous
Bertolt Brecht The righteous one has no sense of humor.
humor musician humour
Carolyn Wells musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
humor heart sanity
Agnes Repplier Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...
humor obscure social
Agnes Repplier Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.