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Famous Quotes about Humor
 A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. 
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
A fool is one who goes on trusting; a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience. You deceive him, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you. Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn. His trust is tremendous; his trust is so pure that nobody can corrupt it.
Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense. Don't try to create a wall of knowledge around you. Whatsoever experience comes to you, let it happen, and then go on dropping it. Go on cleaning your mind continuously; go on dying to the past so you remain in the present, herenow, as if just born, just a babe.
In the beginning it is going to be very difficult. The world will start taking advantage of you...let them. They are poor fellows. Even if you are cheated and deceived and robbed, let it happen, because that which is really yours cannot be robbed from you, that which is really yours nobody can steal from you.
And each time you don't allow situations to corrupt you, that opportunity will become an integration inside. Your soul will become more crystallized.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
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