Black Comedian Funny Quotes

#1. When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

Jonathan Swift

#2. If every man, ... ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

Grace Metalious

#3. Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Chris Evert

#4. Culinary incompetence could explain the first six or seven meals, but more than that had to be culinary malice.

Jeff Strand

#5. Take a look at the polls. The public overwhelmingly supports higher taxes on the wealthy, which have declined sharply in this period of stagnation and decline - higher taxes on the wealthy and preserve the limited social benefits.

Noam Chomsky

#6. You speak, my friend, with a strange earnestness, said old Roger Chillingworth, smiling at him.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#7. Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren't all bad!

Mariella Frostrup

#8. People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.

Don DeLillo