Subject: Emotions

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

Love is blind… but marriage is the real eye-opener.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

(1920 – ) Hungarian writer

Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

If it bends it’s funny. If it breaks, it’s not funny.

(1936 – ) American actor, director & screenwriter

If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who's gonna dance in our strip-clubs?

(1965 – 2010) American stand-up comedian & television personality

Love is staying up all night with a sick child… or a healthy adult.

(1939 – ) British journalist, comedian, writer & media personality

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?


It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.

(1904 – 1989) Spanish surrealist painter

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy; one is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

My shrink told me that my happiness was stress related.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

As my mother used to say, ‘You’ll get unconditional love from me when you’ve earned it.

(1954 – ) American stand-up comedian

Happier than a pig in slop

There must be one day above all others in each life that is the happiest

Corollary: What if you’ve already had it?

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

(1935 – ) screenwriter, author, director & producer

I know what love is ‘cuz’ I watch talk shows… love is the end of happiness!

(1944 – ) American actor, director & producer

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

I had to give up masochism – I was enjoying it too much.

(1931 – 1994) British cartoonist

I have no problem with homophobia; as long as they do it behind closed doors.

(1962 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor

He was grinning like a butchers dog.