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funny law people
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. Charles Dickens
funny marriage wedding
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Charles Caleb Colton
funny age fifty
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. Charles Caleb Colton
funny sarcastic yield
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. Charles Caleb Colton
funny humorous soul
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. Charles Dickens
funny humorous expectations
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. Charles Dickens
funny humorous rolling
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. Charles Dickens
funny humorous majority
In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article Charles Dickens
funny humorous thinking
Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking. Charles Dickens
humor shields darts
Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery Charles Simmons
humor comedian realizing
Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense. Alan Moore
humorous america chinese
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. David Riesman
humor cat world
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. Gina Barreca
humor dying records
Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying. Bill Murray
humor sense-of-humor righteous
The righteous one has no sense of humor. Bertolt Brecht
humor musician humour
musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves. Carolyn Wells
humor heart sanity
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ... Agnes Repplier
humor obscure social
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. Agnes Repplier
men listening wish
Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room. Charles Dickens
men
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. Charles Dickens
men brotherhood common
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men. Charles Dickens
men fellow-man spirit
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. Charles Dickens
men laughing people
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. Charles Dickens
men judging world
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. Charles Dickens
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not. Charles Caleb Colton
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned. Charles Caleb Colton
men two rogues
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. Charles Caleb Colton