Humor Quote by Fredrik Backman — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A time like that comes for every man, when he chooses what sort of man he wants to be. And if you don't know the story, you don't know the man.”

“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?”

“Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.”

“Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.”

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are.”

“One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.”

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

“You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!”

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”

“There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair." (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)”

“I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.”

“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”