Humour in the Workplace

Silence is the wit of fools. - Anatole France

A joke's a very serious thing. - Charles Churchill

The earth is warmer when you laugh. - Samuel Beam

Puns are the highest form of literature. - Alfred Hitchcock

It's better to make people laugh than cry. - Ronnie Corbett

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind. - Gilbert Seldes

Men will let you abuse them only if you make them laugh. - Henry Ward Beecher

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. - Spanish Proverb

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor. - D Elton Trueblood

I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times. - Kimberly Elise

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

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education. - William Hazlitt

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. - Jean de La Bruyere

The best ideas come as joe-ks. Make your thinking as funny as possibell. - Joe-kster

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. - Allen Klein

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. - George Herbert

Laugh an' th' world laughs with you, weep an' it keeps on laughin'. - Kin Hubbard

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. - Thomas Szasz

Laughter is a uniting force; it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier. - Montaigne

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

There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny. - Rick Wakeman

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor. - Christopher Hitchens

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. - Virginia Woolf

Companies need to lighten up and take themselves less seriously. They need to get a sense of humor. - Unknown

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. - Gordon W Allport

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice. - John Green

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing. - Max Irons

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently. - Palladas

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. - Robert Benchley

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. - Edmond de Goncourt

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. - Norm Papernick

The man who sees the consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist. - G K Chesterton

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy. - Garrison Keillor

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx

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

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. - Gail Carriger

Milton, for sixty years you've entertained us, and you've made us laugh, and we say to you, 'Milton, do it again. - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. - Peter De Vries

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer. - Michael P King

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart. Show me the person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag. - Julia Roberts