Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.
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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish im...
KAREN ABBOTT In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor
with serious pleading.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
EVELYN UNDERHILL And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often...
PATRICK O'BRIAN We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth
PATRICK O'BRIAN Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly.
...
PATRICK O'BRIAN ...for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs...
PATRICK O'BRIAN Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.
PATRICK O'BRIAN But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my c...
PATRICK O'BRIAN I do not like to sound discontented neither,' said Pullings, 'nor to crab any ship I belong to; but ...
PATRICK O'BRIAN The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly...
PATRICK O'BRIAN The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in ...
PATRICK O'BRIAN Jack, you've debauched my sloth.
PATRICK O'BRIAN Stephen's heart was big to bursting with the violence of his grief, yet even as he looked distracted...
PATRICK O'BRIAN [Babbington] "What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?"
[Captain Aubrey] "Well, I a...
PATRICK O'BRIAN Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.
SAUL LANDAU Patrick Henry should come back to see what taxation with representation is like
BOB PHILLIPS Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS Brian Peters is running another show next month and Brian should be out again, which will have him r...
HARRY HAWKINS There's always a source for humor.
CALVIN TRILLIN As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be l...
PETER STEELE Virtue in this world should be malleable.
MOLIERE Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as diff...
PARKER POSEY Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of th...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibi...
MARILYN MANSON Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
STEPHEN KING Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the re...
JON LANDAU There's no legitimate reason the sexes should be separated in racing. All Patrick is doing is showin...
DONNA LOPIANO Humanity should always learn to admire & practice patience,because it is the only virtue that leads ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habit...
BLAISE PASCAL St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.
FRANK MCCOURT Why should anyone be afraid? O Nanak, those who recognize the True Lord are blended with the True On...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Evangelicals always assume that humor and faith are contradictory. It's OK to smile, to be nice,...
MIKE YACONELLI With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich.
CHINESE PROVERB I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. Y...
ELAINE STRITCH I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuf...
ESTELLE PARSONS We all should be concerned if our kids don't know who Sandra Day O'Connor, John Adams, and R...
DOUG DUCEY I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains...
MEGAN MCDONALD Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
GARY BAUER I spoke with Brian today and he understands what has to be done.
DENIS HUGHES I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I...
ELVIS STOJKO For Patrick, it's great for shareholders because it should see them garner a higher price.
ATUL LELE Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be for...
ROBERT BURNS Nightly News With Brian Williams.
STEVE CAPUS The sparring has gone very well. It made sense that Brian should work out with Jim Rock because he's...
HARRY HAWKINS I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it ...
KRISTIN HERSH O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf but not to flattery!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have no problem with Brian,
DENIS IRWIN No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.
DAVID SEDARIS Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestl...
MONTY PYTHON I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afrai...
VINCE VAUGHN 'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, b...
DAVID CHASE Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON When you go home
Tell them of us, and say
For your tomorrow,
We gave our today.
PATRICK O'DONNELL [I]ndividual readers may conceivably choose (or be led) to regard a given text as literary in cases ...
PATRICK O'NEILL I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walk...
PAUL WALKER O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint,
With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous
Is tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the hu...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN To secure a Patrick board endorsement there may be one final bump to the bid on behalf of Toll. Patr...
RICHARD WALLACE - Não sei se interprete as suas palavras como um galanteio, se não - replicou Scarlett, indecisa.<...
MARGARET MITCHELL It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kle...
KAREN MARIE MONING Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke wi...
JACK GERMOND The losers are obviously Patrick and Toll shareholders today. The winner is anyone interested in buy...
GEORGE CLAPHAM I was still alive. Ha! Take that kidnappers. Still alive. Maybe it was my butt that was feeding me. ...
KATE BRIAN Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'...
DIANE LADD If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
OLIVIA WILDE Under pressure, she embraced her personal struggles with dignity and humor and always with the focus...
SUSAN SARANDON Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to gre...
ZIG ZIGLAR When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equival...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI We thought last year with Dr. Patrick Moore we were on the right track. (Conference attendees) recei...
DALE LATHIM If I lay here
If I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?
SNOW PATROL I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.
TRAVIS FIMMEL We have a contract with Brian Smith, Newcastle has a contract with Michael Hagan, we want Brian here...
DENIS FITZGERALD I feel really bad for Brian. Brian wanted everybody to be sure that his father was a very sick man.
DANIEL JOSEPH After spending three years with Patrick Bateman (from 1991's
BRET ELLIS After spending three years with Patrick Bateman (from 1991's
BRET EASTON ELLIS Brian has always been reasonable and has a reputation for seeking consensus on difficult issues.
KATHRYN WYLDE May St. Patrick guard you wherever you go, and guide you in whatever you do and may his loving prote...
IRISH BLESSINGS It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually ...
EDWARD DE BONO A girl has to have a beautiful smile, Beautiful eyes and she should have a good sense of humor. She ...
JUSTIN BIEBER TEDDY DAY POEM:
A bear hug for you,
and I would make you forget your sorrows!
I’ll ...
VIKRMN In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't qui...
MICHAEL KEATON I think Brian would be an excellent choice.
DAVID HOFFMAN In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, ...
CANDICE GLOVER I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite dir...
AKIVA SCHAFFER I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some ki...
ANDREW SCOTT I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
DAMON LINDELOF The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing
BLAISE PASCAL It's such a shame, really, because we were known for our country of saints and scholars, and we ...
KATIE TAYLOR Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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MORT SAHL You have my baccala?" asked Angelina.
"Baccala, that's the salt fish, 'cause God's Word gives a...
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P.J. O'ROURKE Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and ...
PAT O'SHEA You're the fire burning inside of me.
KELVIN O'RALPH I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wis...
PETER O'TOOLE I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and ...
JENNY O'CONNELL If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
CONAN O'BRIEN Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulatio...
MARY O'MALLEY What the hell is that?" he asked.
"Magic mushrooms."
"I've always wanted to try those," he...
HEATHER O'NEILL I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we sha...
DANIEL O'MALLEY The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu...
STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ...
P.J. O'ROURKE The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!
JENNIFER O'NEILL Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ...
ERIN O'RIORDAN Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable...
DENIS O'BRIEN For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve...
P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion.
CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e...
JENNIFER O'NEILL The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev...
JOSEPH O'NEILL I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard...
R.B. O'BRIEN You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,...
TIM O'BRIEN They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these wer...
TIM O'BRIEN I was a coward. I went to the war.
TIM O'BRIEN To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ...
TIM O'BRIEN Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat...
TIM O'BRIEN Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein...
TIM O'BRIEN Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of y...
TIM O'BRIEN It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn s...
TIM O'BRIEN