"From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule."

-- Carl Hiaasen

#Fun Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Soapbox Quotes

“Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots!”

Source : Jacqueline Wilson (2008). “The Bed and Breakfast Star”, Random House
“Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism”
“But nobody ever tells you in advance when you should concentrate on the good times-that's why you're supposed to do it every day.”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2011). “After Ever After”, p.247, Scholastic Inc.
“I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.”
“The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.”
“We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.”
“No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.”

Source : James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”
“When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”

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