A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthu… - Thornton Wilder

Many who have dedicated their life to love, can tell us less about this subject than a child who lost his dog yesterday.

Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose the poverty of his general ideas; he never permits the conversation to move toward philosophical principles. Men of his type so dread all deliberation that they glory in the practice of the instantaneous decision. They think they are saving themselves from irresolution; in reality they are sparing themselves the contemplation of all the consequences of their acts. Moreover, in this way they can rejoice in the illusion of never having made a mistake; for act follows so swiftly on act that it is impossible to reconstruct the past and say that an alternative decision would have been better. They can pretend that every act was forced on them under emergency and that every decision was mothered by necessity

So - people a thousand years from now...This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.