Hi everyone and happy Sunday to you all! Sorry I disappeared
for a couple of days. I was in bed with a wicked stomach bug.
I think I have only missed posting a couple of times in the past
couple of years, except for Saturdays. Sometimes I take those
off. So please do return daily and see what I have new for you!
I'm feeling a bit better this morning, so I am able to bring some
quotes to you. Hope you enjoy them! Val =)
Quotes and a Verse on Joking and Laughter
"A joyful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones"
- Proverbs 17:22
"Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows
that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter
how painful your situation might be, you can survive it."
- Bill Cosby
“Everybody laughs the same in every language because
laughter is a universal connection."
- Yakaf Smirnoff
"A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on
the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal,
and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all,
or just where he didn't expect to go."
- Max Eastman
"Jokes are grievances."
- Marshall McLuhan
"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
"A thing said in jest is half confessed."
- Author Unknown
"I don't know jokes;
I just watch the government and report the facts."
- Will Rogers
"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial
as when they take themselves seriously."
- Oscar Wilde
"To tell you the truth, I'm relieved that the Van Ripers
are not coming. He's telling the same jokes he told twenty years
ago and she dyes her hair. I think it's a shrimp pink now."
- Adele Comandini
"A joke without a point, inane and bald,
itself a joke on joking may be called."
- Menander of Athens
