Quotes #12 ================================================ Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way. ( Samuel Johnson ) ================================================ ================================================ We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. ( Napoleon Bonaparte ) ================================================ ================================================ Success is getting what you want; Happiness is wanting what you get. ( Dale Carnegie ) ================================================ ================================================ Much can be analyzed of a man's character by noting what excites his laughter. ( Robert C. Savage ) ================================================ ================================================ Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ( Robert C. Savage ) ================================================ ================================================ Getting what they deserve doesn't satisfy many people. Dying is the last thing I ever intend to do. ================================================ ================================================ The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. I have met people so empty of joy that when I clasped their frosty fingertips it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only the clinging touch of a child's hand, but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others. ( Helen Keller ( pure in sight )) ================================================ ================================================ Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs: He suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ) ================================================ ================================================ Several have defined man as "an animal that laughs." They might equally well have defined him as an animal that is laughed at. ( Henri Bergson ) ================================================ ================================================ A sign of greatness is to be able to laugh at yourself with others -- and enjoy it as much as they do. Great minds ... discuss ideas. Average minds ... discuss events. Small minds ... discuss people. ================================================ ================================================ The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of thins in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. ( Michel de Montaigne ( 1580 )) ================================================ ================================================ All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end. ( Blaise Pascal ) ================================================ ================================================ A man doesn't know what true happiness is until he gets married. Then it's too late. ( Milton Berle ) ================================================ ================================================ If we could forget our troubles as easily as we forget our blessings, how different things would be ..... ..... Laughter is heard farther than weeping. ================================================ ================================================ Money can't buy you happiness. It just helps you look for it in more places. ( Milton Berle ) ================================================ Nothing but Jokes by Nauman Faridi