Comedy Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient. — Mahatma Gandhi

Have faith in your abilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If the quality is there, the consumer will want it, buy it and pay for it. — Frank Perdue

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing. — Toni Morrison

I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending ... — Carew Papritz

Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters. — Deborah Moggach

I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated. — Samuel R. Delany

Yazidis are facing the worst genocide of our times. They have been reduced from 23 million to 1 million. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, desires and expectations. Since the days of Aristotle's, we have been taught that logic is the only way to reach a solution. But while logic works in a step-by-step-process to reach a solution, intuition simply takes a quantum leap to a solution without any intermediate steps. — Swami Dhyan Giten

Purpose is what gives life a meaning. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood still ... Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her bosom heaved, a serious expression came into her face. She was thinking of no one and of nothing at that moment, and from her smiling mouth poured forth notes, those notes that anyone can produce at the same intervals, and hold for the same length of time, yet a thousand times leave us cold, and the thousand and first time they set us thrilling and weeping. — Leo Tolstoy