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Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.


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ARTHUR QUINN Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions ...
ARTHUR QUINN The word of man is the most durable of all material.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivatio...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G...
ARTHUR MILLER Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked Take it or leave it.
ARTHUR SELDON Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat...
ARTHUR KOESTLER True creativity often starts where language ends.
ARTHUR KOESTLER Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and wh...
ARTHUR PHELPS A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Id...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
ARTHUR MILLER The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happe...
ARTHUR MILLER It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendiu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Experience is the key to greatness.
ARTHUR WILLIAMS I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, a...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the p...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD