Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely, but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
