"Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you."

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Source : "Beerbohm Tree" by Hesketh Pearson, (p. 110), 1956.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#Humorous Quotes #Men Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.”
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...”
“That's what's gonna make me come up with new stuff, if you get a good break or a good beat, you get a certain energy, and you wanna release that energy. Freezes to me are like releasing a certain energy. That's me releasing energy that beat gives me, to come up with certain things. A good beat, a rare break, a dope song that I've never really breaked to before will give me a new feeling, a new movement.”
“Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.”
“Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.”
“Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.”
“stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!”
“If done well, I believe the photographic representation of the human subject has the potential to be more revealing than what is revealed by the eye alone, since the human glance is usually a momentary one.”

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