GOOD HUMOR

Related Subjects: Amiability, Cheerfulness, Gayety, Laughter, Merriment, Smile

1. Good humor will sometimes conquer ill humor, but ill humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good humor must operate on generosity; ill humor on meanness.—GREVILLE
   

2. Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small, and the laughter abundant.—WASHINGTON IRVING
   

3. Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good humor, which is no more a virtue than drunkenness.—POPE
   

4. Good humor is the health of the soul; sadness is its poison.—KING STANISLAUS
   

5. This portable quality of good humor seasons all the parts and occurrences we meet with in such a manner that there are no moments lost, but they all pass with so much satisfaction that the heaviest of loads, when it is a load, that of time, is never felt by us.—SIR RICHARD STEELE