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"Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland "I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world." - Peter Ustinov "If I ever stop laughing, I'm dead." - Tom Knapp "The best things in life are silly." - Scott Adams, Dilbert "Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!" - Calvin (Bill Watterson) "This is a different thing. It's spontaneous, and it's called wit." - The Black Adder "I've never had so much fun as I'm going to have tomorrow!" - Dennis the Menace "Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for." - Emma Thompson "Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations." - Erica Jong "Without a strong sense of humour, we might as well all become accountants, remedial algebra teachers and telephone sanitizers." - Tom Knapp "You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance." - William Somerset Maugham "Everybody's always drumming on about the future but I'm not letting it interfere with my laughs." - John Lennon "I'd far rather be happy than right any day." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?" - Dick Cavett "Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag." - Julia Roberts "I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said." - Lyn Nofziger, a Nixon aide "If you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of other people." - Bobby Slayton "What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers." - Dave Barry "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it." - E.B. White "You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything -- even poverty -- you can survive it." - Bill Cosby "Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh." - Katharine Hepburn "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - E.E. Cummings "A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest man." - Willy Wonka, from Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl "Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing "The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously." - Nicholas Murray Butler "Joy is not in things, it is in us." - Benjamin Franklin "The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better." - Charles de Lint, Memory & Dream "It's no harder to be nice than it is to be creepy. And it's much more fun." - spoken by Death in The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman "At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since." - Marilyn vos Savant "And then a small bird landed on a branch above my head -- I don't even know what kind. A sparrow? A wren? It lifted up its head and warbled a few notes and for no good reason at all, I felt happy. I didn't see the singer as a small drab brown bird on an equally drab branch, but as a microcosm that reflected every living thing. I didn't hear its song as a few warbled notes, quickly swallowed by the sounds of traffic beyond the confines of the park, but as an echo of all the music that was ever sung. I sat up and looked around and nothing seemed the same. It was as though someone had just told me some unbelievably good news and simply by hearing it, my perspective on everything was changed." - Charles de Lint, The Ivory & the Horn "I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." - J.D. Salinger "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?" - Charles M. Schulz "Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one." - Dr. Seuss "All of the animals, excepting man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it." - Samuel Butler "There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy." - Paul Rudnick "The best revenge is happiness." - Susan Lindt "I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile." - Charles de Lint, Yarrow "It's always good to hear that people you like are happy." - Will Shetterly, Never Never "The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused." - Shirley Maclaine "Remember, when you're with me it's the only time that you're not the strangest person in the room. So go ahead, get weird on me." - Ally McBeal "We get used to all kinds of things. The sharp taste of alcohol, the bitter taste and caffeine shakes from coffee, the smoke and yellow teeth and coughing from cigarettes. We're really good at getting used to everything we have to suffer with in order to have a good time." - Peter David, Howling Mad "I'm outrageously happy in my stupidity! Don't tell me ... I don't want to know...." - Snoopy (Charles M. Schulz) "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." - Rafael Sabatini "In the end, everything is a gag." - Charlie Chaplin |