“Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.”
A good sense of humor is a survival skill. These quotes celebrate wit, comedy, sarcasm, and the ability to find something funny in situations that might otherwise be unbearable. Laughter, it turns out, is a form of intelligence.
“A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.”
“Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.”
“I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.”
“Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.”
“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.”
“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”
“Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.”
“Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.”
“Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.”
“Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.”
“You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.”
“From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.”
“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
“It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.”
“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.”