Humour Quote by George Gordon Byron

“Though they are now largely silent, the voices from the seventeenth century still speak to us from the innumerable texts and images we are…

— Peter H. Wilson

“Which thou shalt do; if thou shalt go about every action as thy last action, free from all vanity, all passionate and wilful aberration…

— Marcus Aurelius

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

— Andrew Motion

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is…

— Philip Pullman

“And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press, End in the Nothing all Things end in - Yes - Then fancy while…

— Edward FitzGerald

“I know thy works, that thou are neither cold nor hot; I would that thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art…

— Rosa Luxemburg

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has…

— Charles Lamb

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

— W. C. Fields

“what? drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate Hell, all Montagues, and thee”

— William Shakespeare

“Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, to comfort thee, though thou art banished.”

— William Shakespeare

“Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over…

— Jethro father in law to Moses

“I am sure, my poor, lame, mangled conformity to my Maker's commands, fills me with shame, and would make me hang down my head…

— James Hervey