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• Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sunshine, Mind, Disposition

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• Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Caring, Men

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• Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to take ourselves more lightly in the presence of good humor. Humor gives us the strength to bear what cannot be changed, and the sight to see the human under the pompous.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Laughter, Humor, Sight

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• And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

  Will Rogers

  Politics, Vote, Including

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Subordinates look for their bosses to be positive, in good humor, and cheerful. They aren't supposed to be emotional or have bad days. but leaders are guman, too, and when they are in a lousy mood and snap at a subordinate, it can have a devastating effect.

  Donald T. Phillips

  Motivational, Bad Day, Emotional

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• A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Determination, World, Prudence

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

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• The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence.

  Michael Lang

  Country, Art, Dedication

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• Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.

  Charles W. Field

  Sunshine, Shadow, Enlightenment

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• Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

  Adam Smith

  Christian, Fake People, Real

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• French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

  James Howell

  Wine, Men, Blood

  James Howell (1726). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.366

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• The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

  William Temple

  Glasses, Alcohol, Enemy

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• The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

  William Temple

  Communication, Talking, Next

  Sir William Temple (1720). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. ...: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs. The third part. From the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs ... from ... 1672, to 1679”, p.311

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• If people work together, if they can keep a cooperative spirit and use their ingenuity and balance it all with good humor and good will, then there's nothing to be afraid of. That's the sappy part of it, ... On the other hand, every Halloween for many years when my kids were trick-or-treating I would put on my 'Ghostbusters' jumpsuit with a police flashlight to protect all the kids from ghosts.

  Harold Ramis

  Halloween, Kids, Hands

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• Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness.

  Gary Snyder

  Gratitude, Play, Simplicity

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.25, Counterpoint Press

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• Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Fun, Humor, Littles

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• The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

  Barbara Mertz

  Teaching, Opportunity, Lectures

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• The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of a confederacy, will at all times be ready, with perfect good humor, and an unbiased regard to the public weal, to execute the resolutions of decrees of the general authority." "This tendency is not difficult to be accounted for," Publius argues, "It has its origin in the love of power.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Perfect, Unbiased, Administration

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• If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational Life, Sadness, Heart

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• I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.

  Bob Hope

  Veterans Day, Brother, Husband

  Bob Hope (1944). “I never left home”

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• Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Grain Of Salt, Salt

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• When the Constitution declares that 'all men are created equal,' it is not referring to intelligence, good looks, good humor, height, weight, or income. It is talking about certain rights, 'inalienable', in that they cannot be taken away.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Taken, Men, Rights

  Elisabeth Elliot (2007). “The Mark of a Man: Following Christ's Example of Masculinity”, p.21, Revell

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• Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.

  Josh Billings

  Medicine

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• Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

  Alexander Pope

  People, Kind, Virtue

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• Good-humor only teaches charms to last,
  Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

  Alexander Pope

  Character, Past, Lasts

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• What then remains, but well our power to use,
  And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose?
  And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail,
  When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

  Alexander Pope

  Character, Air, Use

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem”, p.124

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