Humour - Quotes

Humour is the shock absorber of life; it help us take the blows. - Peggy Noonan

Through humour, 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. - Unknown

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. - Unknown

There’s hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. - Dorothy Parker

Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment. - Joseph Addison

A senses of humour is needed armour. 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 Sidney

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

Humour is a universal language. - Joel Goodman

Humour is mankind’s greatest blessing. - Mark Twain

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter. - George R. Gissing

People with a good sense of humour have a better sense of life. - Unknown

There’s no life without humour. Humour makes the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. - Rufus Wainwright

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance. - William Somerset Maugham

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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. - Haruki Murakami

Beautiful pictures are developed from negatives in a dark room. So if  you see darkness in your life be reassured that a beautiful picture is being prepared. - Unknown

Always have eyes that see the best in people, a heart that forgives the worst, a mind that forgets the bad, and a soul that never loses faith. - Unknown

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. - Betty Smith

Loving others, pursuing dreams and taking care of yourself while aging gracefully is a class act like no other. - Paul S Boynton

Maybe it’s not always about trying to fix something broken. Maybe it’s about starting over and creating something better. - Unknown

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and make a new ending. - Maria Robinson

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. - Arnold J. Toynbee

The world is full of nice people. If you can’t find one, be one. - Nishan Panwar

Revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority. - Hu Shih

A fearless man thrives on far horizons. - Unknown

Silence is sometimes the best answer. - Unknown

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I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. - Tony Robbins

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth. - Kahlil Gibran 

You have to learn to say no without feeling guilty. Setting boundaries is healthy. You need to learn to respect and take care of yourself. - Unknown

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. - Unknown

To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. - Alexander Pope

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. - Jennie Jerome Churchill

Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you love. It will not lead you astray. - Rumi

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want. - Robert Collier 

Nothing is all wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. - Confucius

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. - Unknown

Misers make wonderful ancestors. - Unknown

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We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware. - Julia Moss Seton

Seek ye counsel of the aged, for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hearkened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them. - Kahlil Gibran

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness. - Caroline Myss

Do something great by starting with something small. Do something difficult with something easy. - Bruce Frantzis

Trying times need not drag you down if you will see them as doorways to new beginnings. - Unknown

Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless. - Lao Tzu

Cheating on a good person is like throwing away a diamond and picking up a rock. - Unknown

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. - Aristotle

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. - Robert Burton

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cursing a flat tire does not fix it. - Unknown

Do not find fault. Find a remedy. - Unknown

Humorous Quotes

Quotes which are funny, ironical, as well as simply, or profoundly true.

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. - Vincent Lombardi

If you ask enough people, you can usually find someone who’ll advise you to do what you were going to do anyway. - Weston Smith 

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. - Lord Salisbury

If you bungle raising your children, I do not think whatever else you do well matters very much. - Jacqueline Kennedy

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven't grasped the situation. - Rose Kennedy

If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’m. - Harry Truman

If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. - W. C. Fields

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month. - Theodore Roosevelt

If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader. - Thomas S. Foley

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. - Mark Twain

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem, but if you owe a million, it has. - John Maynard

If you see me smiling it’s because I’m thinking of doing something evil or naughty. If you see me laughing, it’s because I’ve already done it. - Unknown

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research. - John Burke

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. - Elbert Hubbard

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter. - John Gotti

Life - Quotes

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured. - Earl Nightingale

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. - Isak Dinesen

Life is a like a book. Some chapters sad, some happy, and some exciting. But if you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter holds. - Unknown

Life isn’t meant to be easy, its meant to be lived … sometimes happy, other times rough. But with every up and down you learn lessons that make you strong. - Unknown

Life isn’t about meeting expectations, it’s about pushing past them and venturing into what people thought was not possible. - Stan Ancheta

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you. It is when you don’t understand yourself. - Unknown

Let yourself move to the next chapter in life when the time comes. Don’t remain stuck on the same page. - Unknown

Life is full of blessings. Sometimes we are just too blind to see them. - Unknown

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Havelock Ellis

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire

A person should want to live: If only out of curiosity. - Yiddish Proverb

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. - Scott Hamilton

Life is the sum of all  your choices. - Albert Camus

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. - Socrates

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If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good. - Bob Greene

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit. - Ayn Rand

Sometimes it is very hard to move on, but once you move on, you’ll realize it was the best decision you’ve ever made. - Unknown

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. - Julius Caesar

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. - Quentin Crisp

The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Believe that your life is worth living and your beliefs will help create the fact. - Unknown

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. - Saint Augustine

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. - Aesop

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung

Never assume the obvious is true. - Unknown

The champion makes his own luck. - Unknown

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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. - John Adams

       

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself. - Berenice Abbott

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment. - Tony Robbins

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. - Johann Kaspar Lavater 

Indolence and timidity often keep us to our duty, while our virtue carries off all the credit of doing so. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow. - Unknown

All of us are always going to do better tomorrow, and we would, too, if only we started today. - Unknown

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. - Jim Rohn

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. - Seneca

Praise loudly; blame softly. - Unknown

Fool’s haste is no speed. - Unknown