Quotes on humor and truth

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‎"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
Albert Einstein

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
Galileo Galilei



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

“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

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

I see you have been paying attention to certain loonie essay

lulu wrote:

I see you have been paying attention to certain loonie essay

But honestly not copying...
As Susan once said: make me angry (not you of course ), and you will see if the fire is gone out of me...

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



Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public. ~Tom Walsh

"F*ck 'em if they can't take a joke."

LEM

“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”

--Stephen R. Covey

mdillow31 wrote:

TxTammy wrote:

Come in over the waste ground at the rear. The back door is open.
The Fourth Protocol (1987)

I humbly beg your forgiveness but I am going.. OFF TOPIC.... again. .. your quotation has inspired me... I wonder what secrets THEY are keeping hidden. ????

GAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I have always hated this song. I don't know why.

OK, now we'll return to our regularly scheduled programming . . . . . .

Lovin' Every Minute wrote:

mdillow31 wrote:

TxTammy wrote:

Come in over the waste ground at the rear. The back door is open.
The Fourth Protocol (1987)

I humbly beg your forgiveness but I am going.. OFF TOPIC.... again. .. your quotation has inspired me... I wonder what secrets THEY are keeping hidden. ????

GAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I have always hated this song. I don't know why.

OK, now we'll return to our regularly scheduled programming . . . . . .

It must be because THEY have no piano there.

A laugh is just like sunshine - it freshens all the day!

I think trust and truth go together and that can be woven in humor and be very powerful.



A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

- Thomas Mann


To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

- Martha Nussbaum

Where do you get such good quotes? LEM your's is my favorite.

Every survivor kit should include a sense of humour.

BohemianSpirit wrote:

The truth is out there.

- The X-Files

Trust NO ONE!

"Truth is treason in the empire of lies."

Ron Paul (The Revolution: A Manifesto)

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. ~Taki
'Google'. So where are you guys getting yours?

Are we having fun yet?

Carol Burnett, The Four Seasons, 1981

sue2 wrote:

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. ~Taki
'Google'. So where are you guys getting yours?

I google

Google is my best (online) friend! Not for quotes, necessarily, as I usually don't mess with them, but for all kinds of things, every time I have a question about anything....

Google is my best friend.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.”
Stephen Rufus Wainwright

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. ~ Edward R. Murrow


Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keep friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

- Greenville Kleisser


My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

- George Bernard Shaw

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Peace if possible, truth at all costs.-- Martin Luther

In this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble. -- Gary Amirault

One truth out of context can prove very dangerous. -- Gregory Phillips




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

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.” -- Bill Cosby

“Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?”

whisper wrote:

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. ~ Edward R. Murrow


Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keep friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

- Greenville Kleisser


My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

- George Bernard Shaw

It is? I thought good humor was an ice cream bar.

“If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.”
Joseph Addison

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”
Joseph Addison

“Mirth can be a major tool for insight, changing "ha-ha" to "aha”!" Anonymous

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Funny word, mirth, had to look it up, I thought it was the present of one of the 3 kings... but that was myrrh.
it's strange stuff but it smells well, I have a bit at home...




On frankincense and gold:

“Better do a kindness near home than go far to burn incense” -- Chinese proverb

"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all." - - John Greenleaf Whittier

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. ~ Thomas Fuller



Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise. (Quote by - Bishop Robert South)