"Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list."

-- Jasper Carrott

#Happiness Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.”

Source : Sijie Dai (2002). “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”, Anchor
“When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.”
“The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.”
“Free lunches don't come cheap.”
“My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted characters I could believe in, and I wanted to be made curious about what was to happen to them. Generally, I preferred people to be falling in and out of love, but I didn't mind so much if they tried their hand at something else. It was vulgar to want it, but I liked someone to say 'Marry me' by the end.”
“Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.”
“There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.”

Source : Fairfield Porter, Rackstraw Downes (1979). “Fairfield Porter: art in its own terms : selected criticism, 1935-1975”, Taplinger Publishing Company
“Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.”

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