Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of…

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us...

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us...

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of...

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of...

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Satire is focused bitterness.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the...

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the...

For what is it but an exquisite and priceless chance of salvation due to God...

For what is it but an exquisite and priceless chance of salvation due to God...

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service...

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service...

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness,...

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness,...

Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not...

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not...

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not...

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not...

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or...

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or...

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not...

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not...

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated...

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated...

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the...

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the...

Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.