Quotes on Funny

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.