"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."

-- John Irving

#Sympathy Quotes #Laughter Quotes #People Quotes

“I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck and dressing are still one of my favorites. We prefer fat green-winged teal or wood ducks for our dressing.”
“Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly.”

Source : Max Gunther (2010). “How to Get Lucky: 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaks”, p.129, Harriman House Limited
“You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.”

Source : "Carol Burnett chats about 'mother-daughter love story'". Interview with Craig Wilson, www.usatoday.com. April 8, 2013.
“You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.”

Source : Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”
“I am good in the fact that most of my reviews have been very positive really. I get pretty good reviews. There have been some that aren't - critical. I think they are extremely - the people that wrote them really don't understand what they are looking at quite frankly or have a very preconceived notion of what conceptual art should be or where I am at or the fact that I may change what I have done from what I did 20 years ago. But there is always some reason that they just sort of get it wrong. And so it certainly doesn't affect my work.”
“I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.”
“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”

Source : William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A hungry man is an angry one.”

Source : Buchi Emecheta (1994). “The Joys of Motherhood”, p.135, Heinemann

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