"Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong."

-- David Niven

#Choices Quotes #Misunderstood Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.”

Source : Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.53, Univ of California Press
“Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I've always loathed. If I didn't finish my meat, I had to sit with it for most of the afternoon. No wonder I'm a vegetarian now.”
“Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe that his nation is also of major importance and superior to other nations and peoples. The general level of world information is high but usually biased, influenced by national prejudices, serving to make us citizens of our nation but not of the world.”
“Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.”
“I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.”
“No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.”
“It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year.”

Source : Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”
“Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.”

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