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The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

— Douglas Adams
Humor

What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.

— Cassandra Clare
Love Humor

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

— Lemony Snicket
Humor

How do you feel, Georgie?" whispered Mrs. Weasley.George's fingers groped for the side of his head."Saintlike," he murmured."What's wrong with him?" croaked Fred, looking terrified. "Is his mind affected?""Saintlike," repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. "You see...I'm HOLEY, Fred, geddit?

— J.K. Rowling
Humor

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

— Steven Wright
Humor

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

— Mark Twain
Humor Women

Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.

— James Patterson
Humor

Don't Panic.

— Douglas Adams
Humor

Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)

— Cassandra Clare
Humor

Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –""Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet.""Great idea though, thanks, Mum.

— J.K. Rowling
Humor

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

— Winston S. Churchill
Humor

You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.

— J.K. Rowling
Humor

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

— Douglas Adams
Humor Science

Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?""Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?""Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.

— Rick Riordan
Humor

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

— George Burns
Humor Happiness Family

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.