Quotaria

"Defining and analyzing humor is
a pastime of humorless people."
- Robert Benchley

"In times like these, it helps to recall that
there have always been times like these."
- Paul Harvey

When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao.
- Lao-Tzu

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to
write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their
sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates

"Everybody likes a kidder,
but nobody lends him money."
- Arthur Miller

"The opposite of the religious fanatic
is not the fanatical atheist but the
gentle cynic who cares not whether
there is a god or not."
- Eric Hoffer