We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.
People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Eldest son of Robert Walpole
We need to have a little humor in our lives. .If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.
They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.
I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.
We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know?
If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.
I think a sense of humor is the most important thing anyone can have.
Humor is the harmony of the heart.
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.
My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.
A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.
My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor.
