"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

-- James Thurber

#Happiness Quotes #Success Quotes #Laughter Quotes

“Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.”

Source : William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.205, Cambridge University Press
“The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.”
“There are people who can't stand the pain. What happens is they begin to develop some kind of technique to keep out of that hole. Once they do that, they're finished. They never go any further. They're done.”
“Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.”
“Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.”
“In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.”
“There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.”
“Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.”

Source : J. Courtney Sullivan (2009). “Commencement”, p.262, Vintage

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