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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already read more
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded
A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, read more
A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.
Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow
Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.
- Lope read more
Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow
Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.
- Lope Felix de Vega Carpio ("Tome Burguillos"),
Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till
to-morrow what you can do today.
Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till
to-morrow what you can do today.
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure read more
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any read more
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental read more
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.
Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.