"Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously."

-- Arland Ussher

#Laughter Quotes #Despair Quotes

“The depth of my sorrow is the height of my joy.”
“Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.”
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
“It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.”

Source : Edna Ferber (2015). “Gigolo”, p.160, Booklassic
“The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'.”
“We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.”
“And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.”
“Stand by what you believe in. People who mind won't matter and people who matter won't mind it”

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