#humour

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #humour




She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.


Jefferson Smith


#body-image #bones #dieting #fantasy #feet

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.


David Lodge


#age

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.


Jeff Marder


#age

It’s not easy to be God.


Péter Zilahy


#coming-of-age #dark-humour #sacrifice #age

(backpacker having conversation with Lizzie the Australian main character) Backpacker: 'What's the drinking age in Australia?' 'eighteen' 'is that enforced' Lizzie thought for a second before answering seriously, 'yes, they make us drink


Catherine Deveny


#backpacker #drinking #humourous #age

You could have heard a bee fluff


S.W. Lothian


#humorous #middle-age #age

And don't succumb too much to the spell of these cases. I have seen many other fragments of the cross, in other churches. If all were genuine, our Lord's torment could not have been on a couple of planks nailed together, but on an entire forest.' 'Master!' I said, shocked. 'So it is, Adso. And there are ever richer treasuries. Some time ago, in the cathedral of Cologne, I saw the skull of John the Baptist at the age of twelve.' 'Really?' I exclaimed, amazed. Then, siezed by doubt, I added, 'But the Baptist was executed at a more advanced age!' 'The other skull must be in another treasury,' William said, with a grave face. I never understood when he was jesting.


Umberto Eco


#humour #age

... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.


Kingsley Amis


#faces #humour #rage #anger

I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.


Edwin A. Abbott


#family-relationships #humour #satire #women #anger

Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.


Charles Dickens


#art