Subject: Emotions (Page 21)

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

disc jockey, screenwriter & humorist

All humor is based on hostility – that’s why World War II was funny.

(1927 – 2018) playwright & screenwriter

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.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

Love: Oceans of emotions surrounded by expanses of expenses.

Don’t split your britches

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

(1913 – 1983) journalist & author

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

He was grinning like a butchers dog.

To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

(1876 – 1950) journalist & humorist

My wife and I were happy for twenty years… before we met.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

(1954 – ) author

My daddy always said that a man who walks around with a smile on his face all the time can’t possibly know what's going on.

U.S. Senator (1942 – 2015) U.S. senator (Tennessee) & actor

I’d like to tell you some jokes now, but you’d only laugh.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

I wear my heart on my sleeve… I wear my liver on my pant leg.


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

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

The only difference in the game of love over the last few thousand years is that they've changed trumps from clubs to diamonds.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic

I don’t think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

(1926 – 2012) Irish comedian & actor