Humour in the Workplace

You got a very warfed sense of humor. - Archie Bunker

Laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories. - Jessica Simpson

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. - Koran

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away. - Benjamin Franklin

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. - Phyllis Bottome

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. - Oscar Wilde

Bricks may make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home. - Irish Proverb

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility. - Thomas Jefferson

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. - William Arthur Ward

I want to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously. - William K Zinsser

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself. - Oliver Goldsmith

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

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. - Martin Luther

Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? - Dick Cavett

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye

You may have heard some funny comedians in your time - Milton Berlin, Don Trickles. - Archie Bunker

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

I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does! - Debbie Gibson

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. - Ronnie Barker

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. - Erma Bombeck

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. - Bill Keane

Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. - Erma Bombeck

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. - Kurt Cobain

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times. - John Gerzema

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

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet. - Oliver Herford

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

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. - Audrey Hepburn

Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous. - Graham Linehan

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. - Sergio Aragones

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. - Maya Angelou

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. - E.B. White

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. - Isaac Asimov