Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

Justice Quotes When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty. ~ Norm Crosby

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ~ Robert Frost

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The trouble with the laws these days is that criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. ~Author Unknown

Justice is incidental to law and order. ~ John Edgar Hoover

Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices. ~ Edgar Argo

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place. ~ Lord Halifax

It’s strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. ~Author unknown, quoted in

Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~ Pearl S. Buck, quoted in

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ~ Edmund Burke

But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. ~ Frederic Bastiat,

The more laws the more offenders. ~ Thomas Fuller,

Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench. ~ Author Unknown

It ain’t no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don’t break any. ~ Mae West

Law never made men a whit more just. ~ Henry David Thoreau

If you don’t know there’s a trampoline in the room, you’re not going to dust the ceiling for prints. ~From the television show

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ~ Ambrose Bierce,

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. ~ Charles Evans Hughes

The jury, passing on the prisoner’s life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try. ~ William Shakespeare,

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. ~ Abel Hermant,

When there’s a single thief, it’s robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it’s taxation. ~ Vanya Cohen

I’m convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. ~ Tom Clark

We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give ‘em plenty of publicity. ~ Will Rogers

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. ~ William Ernest Hocking

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ~Jonathan Swift,

One of irony’s greatest accomplishments is that one cannot punish the wrongdoing of another without committing a wrongdoing himself. ~ Anonymous

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ~ Henry Ford

Poverty is the mother of crime. ~ Marcus Aurelius

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists… I always have this thought: If we’d made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn’t be wanted now. ~ Edie Cantor

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ~ Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault),

Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~ Louis Dembitz Brandeis

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. ~ Jesse Jackson

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. ~ H.L. Mencken

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. ~Lady Marguerite Blessington

It is not a Justice System. It is just a system. ~ Bob Enyart

War makes thieves and peace hangs them. ~ George Herbert

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ~ Bertrand Russell,

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. ~ Robert Brault

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. ~ S.I. Hayakawa

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion. ~ Wendell Phillips

An appeal… is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court. ~ Finley Peter Dunne

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. ~ Edward Dahlberg,

Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute. ~Edison Haines

It is easier to commit murder than to justify it. ~ Aemilius Papinianus

Corn can’t expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~ African Proverb

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~ Author Unknown

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. ~ Tacitus,

The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants. ~ Welsh Proverb

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ~ Lao-tzu

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. ~ Honoré de Balzac

Just because the power is out doesn’t mean we unplug the constitution. ~ Law and Order

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. ~Howard Scott

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. ~Oscar Wilde,

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? ~ Will Rogers

A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself. ~ Lord Brougham

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. ~ Bill Vaughan

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. ~ Frank Zappa

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent. ~ Justinian I,

Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. ~ H.L. Mencken

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves. ~ William Shakespeare,

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. ~ Michel de Montaigne

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. ~ Peter Kropotkin,

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government. ~ Pierre Joseph Proudhon, quoted in

The law embodies the story of a nation’s development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,

There is no such thing as justice – in or out of court. ~ Clarence Darrow

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. ~ Lysander Spooner,

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. ~ Remy de Gourmont

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. ~ Edmund Burke

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation. ~Emma Goldman,

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ~ Max Stirner,

Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor. ~ Bill Messing, quoted in

Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge. ~ Author Unknown

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. ~ Leo Tolstoy,

Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth…. Thus the entire arsenal of governments – laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons – is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society. ~ Emma Goldman,

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please. ~ David Dudley Field

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men – and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented…. Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort – as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails. ~Robert Ingersoll,

Every crime is born of necessity. If you want less crime, you must change the conditions. Poverty makes crime. Want, rags, crusts, misfortune – all these awake the wild beast in man, and finally he takes, and takes contrary to law, and becomes a criminal. And what do you do with him? You punish him. Why not punish a man for having consumption? The time will come when you will see that that is just as logical. What do you do with the criminal? You send him to the penitentiary. Is he made better? Worse. The first thing you do is to try to trample out his manhood, by putting an indignity upon him. You mark him. You put him in stripes. At night you put him in darkness. His feeling for revenge grows. You make a wild beast of him, and he comes out of that place branded in body and soul, and then you won’t let him reform if he wants to. ~ Robert Ingersoll,

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~ Earl Warren

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. ~ Walter Savage Landor,

Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. ~ Judge Sturgess

People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made. ~ Otto Bismark

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don’t believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely. ~ Judge Learned Hand, in P. Hamburger,

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain – the equality of all men. ~ Ignazio Silone

 Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ✑ Elbert Hubbard

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. ✑ Tryon Edwards

There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma and free will. ✑ Kuan Yin

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow. ✑ Sakyong Mipham

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it. ✑ Sakyong Mipham

Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ✑ Proverb

O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better… In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven. ✑ Plato

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. ✑ George Eliot

There is a destiny that makes us brothers: none goes his way alone, All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. ✑ Edwin Markham

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven. ✑ Mary Baker Eddy

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. ✑ William Shakespeare

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ✑ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once let men recognize this truth, and the hour of their liberation has struck. Nature cannot enslave the soul that by wisdom has gained power and uses both in love. ✑ Annie Besant

My karma ran over your dogma. ✑ Author Unknown

As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes. ✑ Bhagavad Gita

Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all – gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment, they are burnt, like moths in a flame. ✑ Sri Guru Granth Sahib

If a householder moulds himself according to the circumstances just like nature moulds Herself according to seasons and performs his Karma then only shall he acquire happiness. ✑ Rig Veda

Without the karma of good deeds, they are only destroying themselves. ✑ Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ✑ Proverb

The cool thing about free will is that even if one has a huge bag of karma there is still a lot of free will for all those souls coming into the world. ✑ Kuan Yin

Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. ✑ Frederick Douglas

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. ✑ Edith Wharton

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ✑ Wayne Dyer

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand. ✑ Thich Nhat Hanh

According to the karma of past actions, one’s destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky. ✑ Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Worthless people blame their karma. ✑ Burmese Proverb

As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma. ✑ Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Kindness Quotes A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. ✑ Dave Barry

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. ✑ Thomas Fuller

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. ✑ Alexander Pope,

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. ✑ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. ✑ Bertrand Russell

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ✑ Mark Twain

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ✑ Seneca

A kind word is like a Spring day. ✑ Russian Proverb

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ✑ Samuel Johnson

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life – reciprocity. ✑ Confucius

Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ✑ Author Unknown

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ✑ Henry Boye

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ✑ Abraham Joshua Heschel

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. ✑ Mark Twain

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own. ✑ Adam Lindsay Gordon

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ✑ George Washington Carver

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ✑ John Wooden

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. ✑ Author Unknown

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be. ✑ Antonio Porchia,

The best portion of a good man’s life – his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ✑ William Wordsworth

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ✑ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ✑ Plato

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ✑ Winston Churchill

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ✑ Frank A. Clark

The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. ✑ Author Unknown

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ✑ Charles Kuralt,

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. ✑ Robert Brault

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ✑ Epictetus

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ✑ Malayan Proverb

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. ✑ Marian Wright Edelman

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ✑ Leo Buscaglia

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ✑ Chinese Proverb

As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart – but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it. ✑ The Friendship Book of Francis Gay

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. ✑ Robert Brault

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else’s. ✑ Mignon McLaughlin,

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; ‘Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another’s tears, ‘Til in Heaven the deed appears - Pass it on. ✑ Henry Burton,

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. ✑ Saint Vincent de Paul

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ✑ H. Jackson Brown

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. ✑ Robert Brault

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor’s shoulder is to pat him on the back. ✑ Author Unknown

Open your heart – open it wide; someone is standing outside. ✑ Quoted in

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ✑ Og Mandino

If every man’s internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now? ✑ Peitro Metastasio

Kindness is the greatest wisdom. ✑ Author Unknown

If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. ✑ Alfred Fripp

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. ✑ Max Beerbohm

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ✑ Booker T. Washington

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ✑ John E. Southard

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ✑ Samuel Johnson

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est – this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world’s History. ✑ Ludwig Feuerbach,

Love someone who doesn’t deserve it. ✑ Author Unknown

The more sympathy you give, the less you need. ✑ Malcolm S. Forbes

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent. ✑ Robert Brault

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ✑ Baha’u'llah

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. ✑ Attributed to both Zig Ziglar and Dr. Kenneth McFarland

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ✑ Nelson Henderson

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ✑ H.L. Mencken

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error. ✑ Liz Armbruster

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ✑ James Matthew Barrie

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ✑ Karl Reiland

Don’t cast a shadow on anyone unless you’re providing shade. ✑ Terri Guillemets

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ✑ William Shakespeare,

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ✑ William Penn

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ✑ Benjamin Disraeli

How beautiful a day can be When kindness touches it! ✑ George Elliston

Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. ✑ From the television show

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ✑ William Feather

Real charity doesn’t care if it’s tax-deductible or not. ✑ Dan Bennett

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. ✑ Antonio Porchia,

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. ✑ Anne Frank,

Always be a little kinder than necessary. ✑ James M. Barrie

If you step on people in this life, you’re going to come back as a cockroach. ✑ Willie Davis

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up. ✑ Jesse Jackson

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. ✑ Charles H. Spurgeon

It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice. ✑ Author Unknown

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ✑ Quoted in

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are. ✑ Author Unknown

What this world needs is a new kind of army – the army of the kind. ✑ Cleveland Amory

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ✑ Dalai Lama

During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I’ve never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ✑ Joann C. Jones

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ✑ Rudyard Kipling

Don’t be yourself – be someone a little nicer. ✑ Mignon McLaughlin,

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. ✑ Frank Tyger

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ✑ Author Unknown

A fellow who does things that count, doesn’t usually stop to count them. ✑ Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein

 It takes a lot of experience for a girl to kiss like a beginner. ✑ Ladies Home Journal

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. ✑ Margaret Mitchell

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I’m weary, say I’m sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I’m growing old, but add Jenny kissed me. ✑ Leigh Hunt,

A man’s kiss is his signature. ✑ Mae West

We’re all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker. ✑ Terri Guillemets

Kiss: love professed through lips. ✑ Scarlett Bene

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. ✑ William Shakespeare

When I kiss you, I can taste your soul. ✑ Carrie Latet

I wasn’t kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. ✑ Chico Marx

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. ✑ Barbara Bush

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips. ✑ Alfred

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one’s breath. ✑ Eve Glicksman

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. ✑ Albert Einstein

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ✑ Ingrid Bergman

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that every woman ought to know. ✑ Mistinguett (Jeanne Bourgeois),

Is not a kiss the very autograph of love? ✑ Henry Finck

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the “i” in loving; ‘Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear. ✑ Edmond Rostand

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can’t see anything wrong with each other. ✑ Rene Yasenek

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ✑ Victor Hugo

Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. ✑ Percy Bysshe Shelley,

A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition. ✑ Clare Whiting I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies’ hands – after all, one must start somewhere. ✑ Sacha Guitry I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven’t had time for tobacco since. ✑ Arturo Toscanini

Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score; Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more; A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on, To make that thousand up a million; Treble that million, and when that is done, Let’s kisse afresh, as when we first begun. ✑ Robert Herrick

In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine. ✑ Author Unknown

Stolen kisses require an accomplice. ✑ Just One Fool Thing After Another: A Cowfolks’ Guide to Romance

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep. ✑ H. Jackson Brown

kisses are a better fate than wisdom. ✑ e.e. cummings

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. ✑ Thomas Carlyle

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth – and endures all the rest. ✑ Helen Rowland

Love’s first snow-drop, virgin kiss. ✑ Robert Burns

‘Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul ✑ Judy Garland

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? ✑ Robert Browning,

Once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul thro’ My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. ✑ Alfred Lord Tennyson

People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy. ✑ Bob Hope

A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ✑ Proverb

A kiss is just a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one. ✑ Author Unknown

Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed. ✑ William Shakespeare

What lies lurk in kisses. ✑ Heinrich Heine

Happiness is like a kiss – it feels best when you give it to someone else. ✑ Author Unknown

The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze. ✑ Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

"May I print a kiss on your lips?" I said, And she nodded her full permission: So we went to press and I rather guess We printed a full edition. ✑ Joseph Lilientha

Kissing is like drinking salted water. You drink, and your thirst increases. ✑ Chinese Proverb

[T]hen I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open. ✑ Agnes de Mille

A kiss seals two souls for a moment in time. ✑ Levende Waters

See! the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea: - What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me? ✑ Percy Bysshe Shelley,

Her kisses left something to be desired… the rest of her. ✑ Author Unknown

I ran up the door, opened the stairs, said my pajamas and put on my prayers – turned off my bed, tumbled into my light, and all because he kissed me good-night! ✑ Author Unknown

Never a lip is curved with pain That can’t be kissed into smile again. ✑ Brete Harte

A kiss is the upper persuasion for a lower invasion. ✑ Author Unknown

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ✑ Joe Houldsworth

Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted. There are some you love, I know; Be not loathe to tell them so. Lips go dry and eyes grow wet Waiting to be warmly met. Keep them not in waiting yet; Kisses kept are wasted. ✑ Edmund Vance Cooke

Kisses are like tears, the only real ones are the ones you can’t hold back. ✑ Author

Unknown A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. ✑ Rupert Brooke

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ✑ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,

Lips that taste of tears, they say, Are the best for kissing. ✑ Dorothy Parker

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ✑ Author Unknown

Each kiss a heart-quake… ✑ Lord Byron,

[L]eave a kiss but in the cup, And I’ll not look for wine. ✑ Ben Jonson,

 Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. ✑ Confucius

Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion. ✑ Author Unknown

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. ✑ Michael Garrett Marino

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. ✑ Anthony J. D’Angelo,

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ✑ George Bernard Shaw

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known. ✑ Crates

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. ✑ Daniel J. Boorstin,

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. ✑ Abbott Lawrence Lowell

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ✑ Maurice Maeterlinck

Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes. ✑ Panchatantra

We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. ✑ H.L. Mencken

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. ✑ Susanne K. Langer

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all. ✑ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. ✑ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ✑ Thomas Henry Huxley

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ✑ Carl G. Jung

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ✑ Ralph W. Sockman

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns. ✑ Albert Szent-Györgyi, "Teaching and Expanding Knowledge,"

 God sells us all things at the price of labor. ✑ Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ✑ Scottish Proverb

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils – boredom, vice, and want." ✑ Voltaire

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. ✑ Le Duc de Lévis,

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. ✑ Arnold Glasow

Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life. ✑ Marc Chagall

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ✑ Charles Baudelaire

When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. ✑ Pablo Picasso

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. ✑ Author Unknown

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ✑ Gerald Brenan,

Without labor nothing prospers. ✑ Sophocles

To a bee, honey is work To us, it is leisure, luxury, pleasure. If only the eating thereof would fill us with the spirit of hard work. ✑ Corri Alius

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. ✑ Thomas Jefferson

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless. ✑ Charles Simmons

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ✑ Adam Smith

Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly. ✑ Martin H. Fischer

Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness. ✑ Galen

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ✑ Anatole France,

For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty, And all my ways are dewy wet With pleasant duty. ✑ John Townsend Trowbridge

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. ✑ Albert Einstein

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. ✑ Thomas Jefferson

God give me work, till my life shall end And life, till my work is done. ✑ Epitaph of Winifred Holtby

A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception. ✑ George Bernard Shaw

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. ✑ Isak Dinesen

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach. ✑ George Sheehan

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work And tools to work withal, for those who will…. ✑ James Russell Lowell

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. ✑ Charles Wagner

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. ✑ Henry Ford

Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man. ✑ Jean Jacques Rousseau

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. ✑ Thomas A. Edison

Sweat silently. Let’s have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy. ✑ Martin H. Fischer

It is better to wear out than to rust out. ✑ Richard Cumberland

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it. ✑ Lord Acton

We seem as a nation to be suffering from a mania for play. The huge development of pleasure-chasing automobiles merely symbolizes our universal restless eagerness to be running after something, anything, that we can classify as diversion. Under pressure from tormenting constituents our legislatures are piling up holidays. And the cry of labor everywhere is "Cut down hours; cut down hours," until it seems as if brief, tired minutes were all that would be left for work. The obvious deduction is that work is always something to be got rid of, as if it were a curse. Yet life is work. ✑ Author unknown

When everything is finished, the mornings are sad. ✑ Antonio Porchia,

Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. ✑ Frank A. Clark

Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. ✑ Charles Kingsley

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. ✑ D.H. Lawrence

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ✑ Henry van Dyke

If you want to kill time, try working it to death. ✑ Sam Levonson

To labor is to pray. ✑ Motto of the Benedictines

A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. ✑ Geoffrey Norman

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. ✍ John Locke

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. ✍ Julia Penelope

The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r’s migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells." ✍ Author Unknown

English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway. ✍ Author Unknown

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction. ✍ D.H. Lawrence

Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. ✍ From a

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ✍ Henry Brooks Adams,

One man’s frankness is another man’s vulgarity. ✍ Kevin Smith

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ✍ Jane Wagner

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. ✍ Quentin Crisp

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. ✍ Carl Sandburg,

It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. ✍ Franklin P. Jones

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. ✍ Mark Twain

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. ✍ Marshall Lumsden

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. ✍ Antonio Porchia,

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. ✍ Oliver Wendell Holmes

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. ✍ Abigail Adams

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. ✍ Robert Louis Stevenson

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ✍ Wendell L. Willkie

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. ✍ Edward R. Murrow

If you can speak three languages you’re trilingual. If you can speak two languages you’re bilingual. If you can speak only one language you’re an American. ✍ Author Unknown

Sometimes it’s just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams – assuming you don’t drown in the metaphor. ✍ Robert Brault

I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy. ✍ Bern Williams

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. ✍ Samuel Johnson

Words signify man’s refusal to accept the world as it is. ✍ Walter Kaufmann

The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ✍ Derek Walcott

Language is the dress of thought. ✍ Samuel Johnson

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. ✍ Aldous Huxley

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. ✍ Lewis Thomas

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. ✍ William James

Be not the slave of Words. ✍ Thomas Carlyle,

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as if it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ✍ George Orwell

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. ✍ Mark Amidon

Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool. ✍ Martin H. Fischer

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. ✍ Alfred North Whitehead

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. ✍ Samuel Butler (1835-1902),

I would never use a long word where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who ‘ligate’ arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well. ✍ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Our language is funny – a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing. ✍ J. Gustav White

Words want to be free! ✍ Author Unknown

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. ✍ Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

Oaths are but words, and words but wind. ✍ Samuel Butler (1612-1680),

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly. ✍ Annie Dillard,

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. ✍ Martin H. Fischer

Words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. ✍ Alfred

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. ✍ Alfred North Whitehead

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. ✍ Mignon McLaughlin,

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting. ✍ Peter Finley Dunne,

W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like "epixoriambikos." Still, it is now thought by the learned that other agencies than the difference of the two alphabets may have been concerned in the decline of "the glory that was Greece" and the rise of "the grandeur that was Rome." There can be no doubt, however, that by simplifying the name of W (calling it "wow," for example) our civilization could be, if not promoted, at least better endured. ✍ Ambrose Bierce

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don’t tell you what to say. ✍ Mark Twain

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise – that which is common to you, me, and everybody. ✍ Thomas Earnest Hulme,

Let’s not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia. ✍ Larry King, about political correctness,

The PC [political correctness] movement exists not in order to improve the well-being of those whose oppression it purports to combat. Rather, its purpose is to wrap its proponents in a kind of verbal comfort-blanket. ✍ Erik Kowal

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. ✍ Samuel Butler

A different language is a different vision of life. ✍ Federico Fellini

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. ✍ Robert Brault

"Children, don’t speak so coarsely," said Mr. Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters’ speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library. ✍ Robertson Davies,

Conversation is the slowest form of human communication. ✍ Author Unknown

Learn a new language and get a new soul. ✍ Czech Proverb

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ✍ George Orwell

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. ✍ G.K. Chesterton

 There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything. ✍ Jan Morris

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth. ✍ Hunter S. Thompson

Las Vegas is sort of like how God would do it if he had money. ✍ Steve Wynn

It’s a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you’re feeling lucky you’re really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you’re not feeling lucky, they’ve got a clock at the bus station. ✍ Michael Herr

Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs. ✍ Tom Wolfe

I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble – and you go to strip clubs. ✍ Scott Caan

Las Vegas is Everyman’s cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor’s orgy is now a democratic institution. "Topless Pizza Lunch." ✍ Alistair Cooke

It’s hard to imagine a bigger desert oasis than Las Vegas. ✍ Cinnamon Stomberger

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. ✍ Jeff Candido and Jason Hoff

Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers. ✍ Sarah Vowell

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number. ✍ Steven Wright

Las Vegas – my favorite desert mirage. ✍ Val Saintsbury

For me, Vegas is a vacation from being overinhibited, in the highly overinhabited yet uninhabitable city of complete uninhibition. ✍ Tammy Bloemzaken

The secret affinity between gambling and the desert: the intensity of gambling reinforced by the presence of the desert all around the town. The air-conditioned freshness of the gaming rooms, as against the radiant heat outside. The challenge of all the artificial lights to the violence of the sun’s rays. Night of gambling sunlit on all sides; the glittering darkness of these rooms in the middle of the desert. Gambling itself is a desert form, inhuman, uncultured, initiatory, a challenge to the natural economy of value, a crazed activity on the fringes of exchange. But it too has a strict limit and stops abruptly; its boundaries are exact, its passion knows no confusion. Neither the desert nor gambling are open areas; their spaces are finite and concentric, increasing in intensity toward the interior, toward a central point, be it the spirit of gambling or the heart of the desert – a privileged, immemorial space, where things lose their shadow, where money loses its value, and where the extreme rarity of traces of what signals to us there leads men to seek the instantaneity of wealth. ✍ Jean Baudrillard

In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there. ✍ Author Unknown

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. ✍ Jonathan Clements

Las Vegas looks the way you’d imagine heaven must look at night. ✍ Chuck Palahniuk

The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. ✍ Norman Mailer

Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato. ✍ Jason Love

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. ✍ Ken Kesey

It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile. ✍ Author Unknown

Seven days without laughter makes one weak. ✍ Mort Walker

A laugh is a smile that bursts. ✍ Mary H. Waldrip

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ✍ Victor Hugo

[L]aughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ✍ Hugh Sidey

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ✍ Josh Billings

Carry laughter with you wherever you go. ✍ Hugh Sidey

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. ✍ Arnold Glasow

Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense. ✍ Author Unknown

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. ✍ Joseph Heller

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ✍ Friedrich Nietzsche

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. ✍ Woody Allen

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ✍ Jean Houston

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit. ✍ Author Unknown

Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. ✍ Henry Ward Beecher

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. ✍ Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts,"

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ✍ e.e. cummings

Laughter is an instant vacation. ✍ Milton Berle

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! ✍ Agnes Repplier

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ✍Gordon W. Allport

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ✍ Victor Borge

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ✍ Yiddish Proverb

When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other. ✍ Alan Alda

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ✍ Kurt Vonnegut

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. ✍ Irish Proverb

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ✍Bob Newhart

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. ✍ Puzant Kevork Thomajan

There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh. ✍ Françoise Sagan

I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain’t that the truth." ✍Quincy Jones

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. ✍ Henri Bergson

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. ✍ Max Eastman

A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh. ✍ Raymond Hitchcock

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ✍ Kurt Vonnegut

Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food. ✍ Anna Fellows Johnston

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ✍ Thomas Carlyle,

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. ✍ Stephen King,

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ✍ Abraham Lincoln

Whoever said "laughter is the best medicine" never had gonorrhea. ✍ Kat Likkel and John Hoberg,

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. ✍ Author unknown