"Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool."

-- Constance Rourke

#Humor Quotes #Men Quotes #Tools Quotes

“As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.”
“Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]”
“When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.”
“It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tendered kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet.”
“Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he has never improved on God's law. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are the principles by which man may live with God and man may live with man. They are the expressions of the mind of God for His creatures. They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law....”
“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”
“Iâ€™m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future.”
“Beware of men bearing flowers.”

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