Good Humor Quotes - Page 2

• Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Littles, Courtesy

  "The Lives of the Most Eminent Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works".

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• Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

  Beth Moore

  Laughter, Heart, Wonderful

  Beth Moore (2013). “Jesus, the One and Only”, p.56, B&H Publishing Group

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• I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Success, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Expression, Voice

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

  Mitali Perkins

  Fun, Powerful, Weak

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• From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she was sad or worried or lonely for my father. If she had been crying, she came back composed; if she had left angry with us, she returned in good humor. So we naturally believed that there was a cleansing, purifying effect to be had; that letting the fresh wind blow through you mind and spirits as well as your hair and clothing purged black thoughts; that contemplating the ceaseless motion of the waves calmed a raging spirit.

  Robert MacNeil

  Mother, Lonely, Father

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• Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

  Anne Lamott

  Grace, This Life, Owners

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• Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

  Elizabeth Inchbald

  Motivation, Jaundice, Cheerfulness

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• A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.

  John Adams

  Ambition, Government, People

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag

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• . . . Cultivating good humor may be helpful in finding our own identity. Young people who are trying to find out who they really are often have concerns as to their ability to meet and cope with the challenges that confront them and that lie ahead. They will find that it is easier to ride over the bumps and come quickly to their own identity if they cultivate the good humor that comes naturally. It is important that we all learn to laugh at ourselves.

  James E. Faust

  Lying, People, Laughing

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• Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Believe, Animal

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• Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.

  Edward Young

  Passion, Weight, Judgment

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• The more I see of Italy, the more I adore the Italians. They have so much heart, so much cheerfulness and gaiety, so much good humor. And the way they sing! Every now and then, when a silence falls in the streets, it is broken by some sudden singing voice, with a mellowness and a sweetness that makes you thrill.

  Marie Van Vorst

  Fall, Heart, Voice

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• Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Unique, Years

  Statement by the President on the Death of Elvis Presley, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. August 17, 1977.

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• I hope I pass on my dad's good humor, work ethic and lack of self-seriousness. Our house was always a fun place where you'd get knocked around quickly if you took yourself too seriously.

  Willie Geist

  Fun, Dad, Self

  Source: bookpage.com

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• If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Spoil, Ifs

  Michel de Montaigne (1892*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

  William Hazlitt

  Animal, Safety, Enemy

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• Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.

  Joseph Addison

  Drinking, Glasses, Enemy

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.252

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• Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

  Richard Steele

  Friendship, Dresses, Matter

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.49

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• Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

  Alexander Smith

  Heart, Generosity, World

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• Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Vitality, Symbols

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• Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Art, People, Generosity

  Marvin Mudrick (1981). “Nobody Here But Us Chickens”

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• Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

  Tom Bergeron

  Success, Failure, Humor

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• The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Enemy, Display

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• All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

  Samuel Richardson

  Women, Taken, Maids

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