Jocularly Quotes

#1. Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.

Jose Saramago

#2. Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Edward Hoagland

#3. Lies destroy you,

Dana Reinhardt

#4. Those who don't look for magic, will never find it.

Rima Staines

#5. I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge.

Richard M. Daley

#6. Again, although I'm not a particularly religious person, I go back to the religious left that I come out of: There are moral imperatives to fight back. As Daniel Berrigan says, "We're called to do the good." And then we have to let it go. It's not our job to know where the good goes.

Chris Hedges

#7. The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated - of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.

Havelock Ellis

#8. In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

Lord Mountbatten

#9. You're thinking too much. Try being in the moment. It'll amaze you.

Nora Roberts

#10. Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

Meher Baba

#11. Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

Libba Bray

#12. Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion.

Hillary Clinton

#13. I've never bothered about what people said.

Margaret Mitchell

#14. As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

Victoria Moran

#15. It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Rod Serling

#16. After a long, dreamlike swell, the waves eased and calmed. I didn't know if the blindfold was removed; I couldn't have opened my eyes.
I heard a soft murmur at the edge of my consciousness. "My wife is a goddess.

Juliette Miller

#17. Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.

Joel Salatin