#bse

Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#love #marriage #observational-comedy #humor

His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw benieath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg. ↗

— Herman Melville

#epic #obsession #life

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#observation

Pretty, was she?" "Pretty?" he echoed. "Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings and not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#heaven #love #obsession #women #beauty

Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings. ↗

— James L. Halperin

#observant #understanding #wise #love

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#observation #satire #love

I love making observations. That one is a classic example. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#observations #twitter #love

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #ibsen #moroseness #sombre-mood #unhappiness

If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she’ll still display it on her desk at work. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#observation #observational-comedy #humor

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#observation #humor