"Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers."

-- Leo Rosten

#Time Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One nip from a dragon and you're down? Get up, you craven school (boy/girl)!”
“Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.”
“Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.”
“There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.”

Source : Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”
“When youre in a fighter jet and theres a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, its light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.”
“There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.”
“You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”

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