Good morning and welcome to another edition of “Wisdom Wednesday”. Each week I will post motivational quotes on various virtues. Last week’s virtue was self-sacrifice. This week’s virtue is the wonderful virtue of humor.
Humor is the capability to recognize, take pleasure in, or convey what is funny, comical, absurd, or ridiculous. Humor really is what saves us from ourselves, and it assists us in remaining psychologically healthy. Some might even argue that humor can help us to become humble. By allowing us to feel less self-important, humor thus leads to humility. In addition, it can become a way to support our ego, mood, frame of mind, and talents.
10 Wisdom Wednesday/Virtue Quotes: Humor
- “The secret to humor is surprise.” –-Aristotle
- “A joke is a very serious thing.”—Winston Churchill
- “Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one’s bottom.” –Taki
- “If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”—Mahatma Gandhi
- “You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”—Bill Cosby
- “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” –Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.”—Langston Hughes
- “Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”—Francis Bacon
- “Laugh as much as possible, always laugh. It’s the sweetest thing one can do for oneself & one’s fellow human beings.” – Maya Angelou
- “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”—Dwight D. Eisenhower
