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“Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn't matter how brave you are, or how reserved, or how much you've developed a sense of humour, you still end up with your heart broken. That's when you stop laughing.”

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Author:Michel Houellebecq

“I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.”

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Author:Nick Cave

“The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.”

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Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.”

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Author:Sid Caesar

“The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.”

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Author:Jorge Garcia

“You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.”

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Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.”

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Author:John Agard

“Dad made me laugh a lot. He was a real comedian. He had a real sarcastic sense of humour, he could really make a fool out of people. I have to watch it a little bit, because I caught that habit from him. I was really fond of him. He was my idol.”

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Author:Julian Lennon

“It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with the cognitive faculties of a rabbit.”

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Author:James Mortimer

“Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.”

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Book:1708-1720

Source: 1708-1720

“Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.”

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Author:Raymond Chandler

“I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.”

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Author:Colin Firth

“As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a vision for the future for our people.”

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Author:Ken Wyatt

“From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.”

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Author:Ade Edmondson

“We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes, and dreams. We are not a cult. This religion is not a joke. We are not what you think we are from looking at T.V. We are real. We laugh, we cry. We are serious. We have a sense of humour. You don't have to be afraid of us. We don't want to convert you. And please don't try to convert us. Just give us the same right we give you--to live in peace. We are much more similar to you than you think.”

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Author:Margot Adler

“I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.”

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Author:Siobhan Fahey

“Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.”

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Author:Jim Bouton

“There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.”

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Author:Ade Edmondson

“No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change. Psalm 139:23 - 24”

Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

“What is this place?’ ‘Heaven.’ She laughed, ‘with better drinks!”

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Book:A Banquet Of Crumbs

Source: A Banquet Of Crumbs

“There is a miracle in your mess, don't let the mess make you miss the miracle.”

Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”

Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

“People are good because they are good in hiding their bad.”

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Author:Ratish Edwards

“I did not utter a word on seeing them nor did my feet falter but I was shaken by the revelation of two people, whom until now I had regarded only as reflections of my own existence, in violent relation to each other. For the first time I was forced to admit that other people existed. It was not a discovery that I welcomed.”

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Book:The Naked Civil Servant

Source: The Naked Civil Servant

“No one lives a full life without having an impact. Everyone has the power to make those around them happy or miserable, satisfied or frustrated. What more do you want?”

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Book:The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

Source: The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

“As Lao Tzu wrote ‘to love strongly gives you strength. To be loved strongly gives you courage.’ So may you both grow stronger and more courageous with each passing year.”

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Book:The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

Source: The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

“We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.”

“A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.”

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Book:The Confessions of a Misfit

Source: The Confessions of a Misfit

“Dating someone exclusively for four months in New York is like four years in Anchorage.”

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Book:Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

Source: Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC

“An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.”

“Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more.”

“As for you, you're unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?”

“You do not love me; you love my success!”

“Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.”

“They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.”

“To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shall hear yet greater things.”

“After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding.”

“Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better than he that made them?”

“Number me the things that are not yet come- gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad- make me the flowers green again that are withered- Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up- shew me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to thee the thing that thou labor to know.”

“O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?”

“Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.”

“Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?”

“I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.”

“Could thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou might shew thy judgement the sooner?”

“The creature may not haste above the maker; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.”

“As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which gives life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also bear them that now be present at once.”

“Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.”

“Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.”

“Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.”