Humor Quote by David Foster Wallace — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.”

“Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.”

“Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.”

“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

“This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.”

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.”

“You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.”

“Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.”

“You've got no sense of humor.”

“Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.”

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”