But humor is too delicate and evanescent a thing to be extracted from a book like plums from a pudding. – Beatrix, “What to Read,” The Household, supplement to Michigan Farmer and State
Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasnt comedy I dont know if Obama could have ever become president. – Marlon Wayans
I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched Shrek I really laughed out loud. – Cheryl Hines
[I]t seems as if pain were the prayer of the nerve for healthy blood. – Moritz Heinrich Romberg, A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man, 1840, translat
In many ways, history is marked as before and after Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. – Jesse Jackson
It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
