“Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.”
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Funny Quotes — page 9 of 1263
“A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.”
“The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.”
“I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.”
“Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.”
“Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.”
“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”
“Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.”
“Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.”
“I think sometimes when you want attention you can wear sunglasses and people are like "Who is that?"”
“Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”
“Don't look back unless it's a good view.”
“Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
“it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people”
“A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.”
“Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on it? We have the war on crime, the war on cancer, the war on drugs. But did you ever notice that we have no war on homelessness? You know why? Because there's no money in that problem. No money to be made off of the homeless. If you can find a solution to homelessness where the corporations and politicians can make a few million dollars each, you will see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty damn quick!”
“If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?”
“Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.”
“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
“In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've committed? And that's a very sensible question. But there's another way of thinking about where we are in our identity. The other way of thinking about it is not, do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit, but do we deserve to kill?”