"Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be."

-- Stephen Leacock

#Might Quotes #Humour Quotes #Contrast Quotes

“We are not America. We are Afghanistan.”

Source : "Karzai on the cost of the war, his relationship with Pres. Obama and more". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. May 21, 2012.
“Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.”
“Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.”
“No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.”
“Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.”
“When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all.”
“Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.”
“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

Source : "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" l. 1 (1815 ed.) See DorothyWordsworth 1

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