#musing

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#funny #funny

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. ↗

— David Bailey

#cared #fashion #i #liked #little

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ↗

— Voltaire

#art #consists #cures #disease #medicine

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. ↗

— Orson Welles

#because #class #counted #criminals #distinction

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#amusing #long #never #ones #stories

St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing. ↗

— John Dyer

#across #all day #amusing #assume #day

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. ↗

— Cliff Fadiman

#feel #helpful #i #i think #interesting

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#anecdotes #arrange #down #edit #full

The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. ↗

— William Blake

#heresy #iconoclasm #intuitive-ethics #religion #sophistry

Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#reflection #philosophical