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Oct 13, 2021 14:48:24   #
badbobby Loc: Humble Texas
 
thank you BadFisherman


Thanks to our friend Armageddun for inspiring me to post the following, as laughter is a gift we can give ourselves and others. Humor really is our saving grace, and it helps keep us psychologically healthy.

"Laugh as much as possible, always laugh. It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself & one's fellow human beings." –Maya Angelou

"A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better." –Barbara Walters

"He who laughs, lasts." –Mary Pettibone Poole

"A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing." –Laura Ingalls Wilder

"There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face." –Eva Hoffman

"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." –Bill Cosby

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road." –Henry Ward Beecher

"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously." –Oscar Wilde

"When humor goes, there goes civilization." –Erma Bombeck

"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

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

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

"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor." –Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Comedy is acting out optimism." –Robin Williams

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

"Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing." –Allen Klein

"Humor is just another defense against the universe." –Mel Brooks

"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it." –Langston Hughes

"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs." –Christopher Morley

"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor." –Jennifer Jones

"Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth." –Victor Borge

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight." –Leo Rosten

"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you." –Langston Hughes

"Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor." –Eric Sevareid

"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense." –Jacob August Riis

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Oct 13, 2021 14:54:42   #
OJdidit Loc: Oak Creek Wisconsin
 
Great post, thanks for sharing!

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Oct 13, 2021 16:12:58   #
Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA
 
Gulley Jimson, one of the great characters in English fiction, at the very end of the novel The Horse's Mouth, has suffered a stroke and he is joking with one of the nuns as he lies dying on a gurney in a Catholic hospital. She says to him "At a time like this, Mr. Jimson, don't you think it would be better to pray a little more and laugh a little less?"

"Same thing, Mother." Gulley's reply.

I read that about 60 years ago and I've never forgotten it.
Thank you bb.

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Oct 13, 2021 20:37:42   #
Slimshady Loc: Central Pennsylvania
 
When you learn to laugh at the stupid,silly things that you do,then you have accomplished something

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Oct 14, 2021 08:56:38   #
dbed Loc: POMME DE TERRE LAKE MISSOURI
 
Nothing better than being able to laugh at ones self

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Oct 14, 2021 08:57:04   #
dbed Loc: POMME DE TERRE LAKE MISSOURI
 
Nothing better than being able to laugh at ones self

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Oct 14, 2021 15:04:32   #
USAF Major Loc: Sea Bright, NJ
 
Love the Eric Sevareid quote about power. I'll leave it at that so as not to start a brouhaha on a fishing site!
I'm sure some will get my drift.

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