Thought Provoking Humourous Quotes

“Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

“While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early morning, she was aware that at the back of her mind there was another thought that was not at all stale, but so fresh that it was nearly a feeling, with all a feeling's delicious power to kill thought.”
― Stella Gibbons, Nightingale Wood

“The great artists of finance like Morgan and Rockefeller weren't deflected. They wanted and got money, just simple money. What they did with it afterward is another matter. I've always felt they got scared of the ghost they raised and tried to buy it off.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“I'm sorry," I said, "did you just say elections are about hope?”
― Noah Hawley, The Good Father

“Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.”
― Wil Zeus

“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Markets by themselves offer no protection against fraud, theft and violence.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind