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“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 sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”
Mignon McLaughlin
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“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.”
Clifton Paul Fadiman
“A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.”
Hugh Sidey
“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.”
Jessamyn West
“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.”
William A. Ward
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“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. “
E. B. White
“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.”
Sid Caesar
“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.”
Peter Ustinov
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
William James
“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”
Mel Brooks
“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.”
Frank Howard Clark
“One doesn’t have a sense of humor. It has you.”
Larry Gelbart
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My dad had a great sense of humor and he was kind enough to give it to me in a lot of different forms – stories, jokes, puns, sarcasm. He taught me to stand back and look at things as if it were a movie. Many times, when you do this, you are able to see the humor in the situation.
He also used laughter as a defense. When he was 3, he fell off a horse, breaking his arm so badly that the doctors barely saved it. The result was a left arm much shorter than his right and a curled up, essentially useless hand. When kids at school bullied him, he made them laugh. They decided they liked him and wanted to be around him, so the bullying stopped. This ability served him well his whole life, allowing him to get married, have two kids, provide for everyone using his humor and talent to create radio commercials for his clients. He won an Addy Award for lifetime achievement in Tulsa. When he died, he scrawled on a piece of paper, “Remember me laughing.”
He gave us love and a priceless tool for handling many of the tough things in life. I can’t count the number of times that being able to see and share the humor in a situation has helped me – plus those dealing with me.
This morning is a good example of how being able to see the humor has saved my husband and our marriage! We were upstairs trying to program our ‘smart’ thermostat to cool down in the evening before we go to bed, keep it cool while we sleep, and then turn off during the day. The idea is that you set the time and day of the week, then start with day 1, setting heat and cool for each ‘period’ of the day – morn, day, afternoon, and evening with temp for heat and then for cool. When you finish one day’s programming, you can then copy it to all the other days and then get out of programming mode, setting it to ‘cool’ or ‘heat.’
We have just tried to do this four times, laboriously going through the long list of directions. When we finish, we get out of the programming mode, putting it to ‘cool.’ And it immediately turns on the a/c and starts to cool it down. WRONG! Plus – the ‘prog’ mode indicator is flashing. We don’t know if the thermostat is messed up or we’re having a serious case of user stupidity or what. We started getting really frustrated and angry, and then I was able to stand back and look at the two senior citizens – frustrated and angry – arguing over the thermostat being smarter than we were, and I started to laugh. When my husband asked, ‘what the hell are you laughing about?” I laughed even harder. Finally, he started to laugh, too. It diffused the situation – even though it’s still true that the thermostat is smarter than we are. We have now called and left a message with our go-to guy on heat and cooling…
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We stopped at a garage sale several days ago. I found some signs I loved at a great price, so I bought three of them. This is the “Believe” sign we hung up over the door on the back porch.
We hung up this “Laugh” sign on the other end of the back porch.
This is a wall of our garage, where we added the “Cherish” sign to complement the “This is Our Happily Ever After” sign already there.
I wanted to make this sign in our shop, but my husband was feeling lazy and bought this one. I love it.
“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?”
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Cathy Thomas
If YOU’RE here, too, let’s help each other get back home…
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“This would be the “half bath” noted in the real estate listing?”
“Very Classy! And, only three steps to the throne when you’re in a hurry!”
“How does this even get past the planning phase?”
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I started mowing the lawn yesterday, in a rush because we were going to have thunderstorms in the afternoon. My husband came out and took over when I had finished about half of the yard. I drank some water and then went out to run the leaf blower to clean up the front porch, sidewalks front and back and the garage pad of all the grass and dirt.
We both came in breathing pretty heavily and drank water again and rested.
Can you hear Mother Nature giggling? She has a cruel sense of humor sometimes. I think she loves seeing us rush around and then NOT send the rain…
“Apparently, you don’t want anyone seeing your face, but everything else is okay?”
“And the purpose for the door is?”
“This stall is for people that have arms like an orangutan.”
“The oak seat is a nice touch, though.”
Sent to me by my good friend, Marsha Koenig.
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“&%$@#”
“Hmmmmm…”
“Should have measured twice!”
These were sent to me by my good friend, Marsha Koenig. I’m still cringing and laughing.
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Filed under Funny Signs - Humor
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