To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune. – Charlie Chaplin
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. – Charlie Chaplin
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune. – Charlie Chaplin
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. – Charlie Chaplin
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others happiness, not by each others misery. – Charlie Chaplin
Perhaps only his sense of humor and irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation in the world speaking of his aggression as it drops thousands of bombs on a poor weak nation more than eight thousand miles away from its shores. – Martin Luther King,Jr., about Ho Chi Minh, Beyond Vietnam lecture, 4 April 1968
Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. – Joseph Farrell, “About Conversation,” The Lectures of a Certain Professor, 1877