William Rotsler on humor

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• Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

  George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911), Act V

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• Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

  Mark Twain1835–1910“What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?” (1897)

• You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosbyborn 1937

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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