Humour in the Workplace

Comedy is tragedy plus time. - Carol Burnett

Nobody ever died of laughter. - Max Beerbohm

Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman

Laughter is an instant vacation. - Milton Berle

Laughter does not please the mighty. - Dario Fo

I live to laugh, and I laugh to live. - Milton Berle

He who laughs last didn't get the joke. - Charles de Gaulle

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. - Koran

There is little success where there is little laughter. - Andrew Carnegie

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. - Will Rogers

Bricks may make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home. - Irish Proverb

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. - George Eliot

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke. - Hugh Elliott

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility. - Thomas Jefferson

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. - Doug Larson

I do believe that laughter is the best medicine - it cures everything. - Radhika Apte

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it. - Suzanne Necker

A daughter is someone you laugh with, dream with, and love with all your heart. - Unknown

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? - Dick Cavett

Humour is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. - Malcolm Muggeridge

You don't have to teach people to be funny, you only have to give them permission. - Harvey Mindess

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones. - William S Coffin

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. - Ronnie Barker

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed. - C S Lewis

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun. - Billy Joel

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. - Golda Meir

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. - Margaret Sackville

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

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - George Bernard Shaw

That's the Irish people all over - they treat a joke as a serious thing, and a serious thing as a joke. - Sean O'Casey

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. - Logan P. Smith

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. - Bob Hope

Give me a Murphy bed, a Lazy Susan, a grandfather clock and a bulldog, and I will show you the meaning of comedy. - Jonathan Goldstein

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it. - Groucho Marx

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor. - George Jean Nathan

Milton, for sixty years you've entertained us, and you've made us laugh, and we say to you, 'Milton, do it again. - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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