A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. – Lewis Mumford
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something. – Auguste Strindberg, Miss Julie, 1888
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early 70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire. – David Zucker
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. – Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
Attend to me, Sancho, I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be for ever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de la Mancha, translated from Spanish
The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
