Decrepit Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge Download Open image “A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.” — Malcolm Muggeridge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decrepit Humor Individual Inspirational Society
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“Humor as a system of communications and as a probe of our environment—of what's really going on—affords us our most appealing anti-environmental tool. It… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Preacher Henry Ward Beecher said, “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It is jolted by every pebble… — Ted Cunningham Copy Share Image
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“Humor today goes hand in hand with our rationality, and not just rationality in the sense of cognitive sophistication, but also in the sense… — John Morreall Copy Share Image
“It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it.… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
