Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
"Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin."
— Alexandre Dumas
Philosophy
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
— Bertrand Russell
Philosophy
When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.
We could not guess how different from us they (extraterrestrials) might be. It was hard enough to guess the intentions of our elected representatives in Washington.
For thy sake, tobacco, IWould do anything but die.
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
You would probably not say that he was sleeping the sleep of the just, unless you meant the just asleep, but it was certainly the sleep of someone who was not fooling about when he climbed into bed of a night and turned off the light.