Quotes on Humor

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Be bold in your caring, and be bold in your dreaming.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.

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

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.