Humour in the Workplace

Even the gods love jokes. - Plato

Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle

Laughter is an instant vacation. - Milton Berle

When the age is in, the wit is out. - William Shakespeare

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. - Mark Twain

When humor goes, there goes civilization. - Erma Bombeck

Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Laughter is brightest in the place where the food is. - Irish Proverb

Mountains aren't just funny. They are hill areas. - Unknown

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant. - William Congreve

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at. - Tina Fey

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything. - Marilyn Monroe

A sense of humour is the ability to laugh at one's self. - Charlie Chaplin

For thirty years my act consisted of one joke. And then she died. - George Burns

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

The scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. - Michael J. Fox

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

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. - Joseph Addison

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer. - Gail Parent

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. - Adlai Stevenson

Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman

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

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they will never cease to be amused. - Unknown

I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter because I really am quite the joke. - Peta Wilson

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn? - Bob Hope

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. - Agnes Repplier

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. - Guy Davenport

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. - George Orwell

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. After all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. - Dame Edna Everage

Humour is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. - Lewis Mumford

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. - Mark Twain

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

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall. - Alan Bennett

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud. - Jesse Ventura

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

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

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

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune. - Bert Williams

A woman with confidence is hypnotic. A smile is mesmerizing. Presence, openness, a sense of humor - these are all things that make a woman attractive. - Jessica Ortner