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“My knowledge of the universe is that if I write stupid jokes, the universe gives me a really nice house and great meals. I do not believe mankind will ever develop a formula to explain this.”

Ifs Giving Writing Believe Funny Science Universe House Nice Mankind Stupid Jokes Give Me Meals Formulas Really Nice Nice House Stupid Jokes

Author:Joel Klein

“The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.”

People Men Way Wells Would Be House Born Common Mankind Tests Best Way Variety Encounters Climbs Readiness Chimneys

Book:Heretics

Source: Heretics

“The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface.”

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurled Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curled Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world.”

World Together Lying House Mankind Rounds Clouds Golden Hills Valleys Careless Bolts Nectar

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.”

Way Night Culture House Dark Grief Land Mankind Cost Prison Dawn Persist Dark Night Promised Land

Book:A Mania for Magnificence

Source: A Mania for Magnificence

“Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.”

House Mankind Masters Posts Customs Officers Indifferent Obliged Converses Inns

Book:Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)

Source: Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)

“My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.”

Knows Years Littles Dream House Leader Sea Mankind Needed Citizens Majors Ordinary Fence Palaces Superpower Ordinary Citizens Picket Fences

Author:Imelda Marcos

“The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.”

World Long Ideas Law Order House Given Loss Rooms Mankind Creatures Supreme Absurd Cynical Supreme Being

Author:Peter De Vries