"My way of joking is to tell..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is to tell the truth
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“What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.”
“The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.”
“There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.”
More on Truth
“It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
“The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.”
“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.”
More on Humor
“The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor.”
“Sure I smoked pot in hospital. My wife won't let me toke at home.”
“You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.”