English Humoristic Quotes & Sayings

If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and I don't think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints. — Bill Watterson

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality — Benjamin Franklin

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it. — Marianne Faithfull

Love has no monetary value, but it enhances the value of life. — Debasish Mridha

Manage by responsibility.It is a powerful way to grow people. — Brian Tracy

And here I must take the liberty, whatever I have to reproach myself with in my after conduct, to turn to my fellow-creatures, the young ladies of this country, and speak to them by way of precaution. If you have any regard to your future happiness, any view of living comfortably with a husband, any hope of preserving your fortunes, or restoring them after any disaster, never, ladies, marry a fool; any husband rather than a fool. — Daniel Defoe

The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross does not offer any charm of outward appearance, but to the cross-bearer its true character is revealed, and he finds in it the choicest sweets of spiritual peace. — Sadhu Sundar Singh

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice. — Jurgen Klinsmann

It's hard to steer a parked car. — Jim Elliot

As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out. — Elisabeth Shue

Perhaps I had been in another world before I was born, and did not remember it, or perhaps I would see another world when I died, which I was in no hurry to do. — Lemony Snicket

Follow your dreams, because your dreams won't follow you ... — Amanda Holden