Your Quote of the Day

“There's always light after the dark. You have to go through that dark place to get to it, but it's there, waiting for you. It's like riding on a train through a dark tunnel. If you get so scared you jump off in the middle of the ride, then you're there, in the tunnel, stuck in the dark. You have to ride the train all the way to the end of the ride.”
― Han Nolan,

"Its being so cheerful as keeps me going".

Mona Lott in ITMA.

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
― Cassandra Clare

“If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain
We'd hunt down Love together,
Pluck out his flying-feather,
And teach his feet a measure,
And find his mouth a rein;
If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain.”
― Algernon Charles Swinburne

You don't want to go there ed.

A claim to be not imaginatively bankrupt I suppose. Has she a red line between sarcasm and irony. It would be a disaster if irony was to be the last refuge of the even more imaginatively bankrupt. There wouldn't be a decent book left in the libraries.

"There is nothing more beautiful than sarcasm. That is definitely an overstatement but it should balance the moronic comment which says that sarcasm is the lowest form of humor. Now, whoever made that statement was desperately in need of a rectal broomstick extraction procedure."

The Sarcasm Society.

The Sarcasm Society.

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference

I'm with you on that mate, it's not sarcasm, but puns that are the lowest form of wit, by a mile.

“The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.”
― Kingsley Amis

That's class ed.

It's a bit like that one I quoted from Darwin's son about Jane Austen's books.

The rewards for having a bad memory may not be very many, but being able to enjoy reading Jane Austen many times is one of them.

Have you read much of Kingsley Amis ed? You should. Stanley and the Women is a hoot.

"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.

MARK TWAIN, Following the Equator

“Puns are generally counted as the lowest form of wit, perhaps because they are cheaper and can be formed with the least effort.”
- Sigmund Freud

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.
- Lawrence G. Lovasik

"Humility is the best way to get **** on."

spendius. In Between The Sunshine.

"Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels."
— Rabino Nilton Bonder

"Humility is not the opposite of pride any more than that courage is the opposite of cowardice. Recklessness is the opposite of cowardice. Courage is the 'golden mean' as Aristotle would have it. Likewise humility is the 'golden mean' between pride and an abject lack of self-esteem."
anonymous (for now)

Humility can be aggressive. I assume Mr Bonder is making a back-handed claim to be a person who can recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels. Good for him. What does it mean?