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Mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
We shall require a substantially
new manner of thinking
if mankind is to survive.
- Albert Einstein
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound
to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The good opinion of mankind,
like the lever of Archimedes,
with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy,
and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind
in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- John F. Kennedy
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
- Stephen Hawking
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A willingness to laugh at itself is what distinguishes
a compassionate religion from a cult.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Humor is reason gone mad.
- Groucho Marx
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Hang tough... big girl panties today.
- Anonymous humor
When life gets you down -
just put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
- Anonymous humor
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confucius might have said:
Once frightened, twice smelly in armpit.
- Anonymous humor
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing,
moving at different speeds.
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
He early on let her know who is the boss.
He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss."
- Anonymous humor
Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor
makes you more human, more humble.
The sense of humor - according to me -
is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
- Osho
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor,
it covers the natural want of it,
and ends by rendering habitual a substitute
nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
I know that God made the whole world in 4004 BC.
I know because my preacher told me. He's a good man.
He's even saving up all the money we give him
to go to bible college someday.
- Anonymous Humor
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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