Humor Quotes

"Good-humor makes all things tolerable."
Henry Ward Beecher

"A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable."
Billy Graham

"We all enjoy working with someone who has a sense of humor. At times the workplace can become a stressful place, and a sense of humor lightens the environment."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from What Are People's Expectations of a Coach?

"Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture."
Konrad Lorenz

"Good –humor is goodness and wisdom combined."
Owen Meredith

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs — jolted by every pebble in the road."
Henry Ward Beecher

"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it."
Frank A. Clark

"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."
William Thackeray

"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it."
Henry Ward Beecher

"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life."
Hugh Sidey

"Humor to a man is like a feather pillow."
Irish Proverb

"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."
Max Eastman

"You grow up the day you have the first real laugh...at yourself."
Unknown

"Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor. "
Smiley Blanton, MD

"The most important things in life are your friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life. If you have these then you have everything!"
Author Unknown, from How Poor Are We?

"It is better to laugh about your problems than to cry about them."
Jewish Proverb

"Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'."
Donald Rumsfeld

"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused." -
Shirely MacLaine

"The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed."
Nicolas Chamfort

"A man without humor is like a car without shock absorbers."
Author Unknown, from Achieve Your Dreams

"A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion."
Henry Louis Mencken

"What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too."
Norman Cousins

"While spending a lifetime finding the answer, along the way I discovered humor makes the journey a lot more enjoyable."
Patricia Heller, from If You Hear the Message Three Times, LISTEN

"His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's idiosyncrasies and himself in a self deprecating way taught that most valuable of lessons: 'to be of good cheer, no matter what Life threw at you, and ever to find the hope that dwells in every human heart'. "
John McLeod, from One Starlit Night….

"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your step as you walk the tightrope of life."
William Arthur Ward

"Laugh and find humor in everyday."
Catherine Pulsifer

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