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  1. A quotation from The Bible

    Feasts are made for laughter,
       wine gladdens life,
       and money meets every need.
     
    לִשְׂחוֹק֙ עֹשִׂ֣ים לֶ֔חֶם וְיַ֖יִן יְשַׂמַּ֣ח חַיִּ֑ים וְהַכֶּ֖סֶף יַעֲנֶ֥ה אֶת־הַכֹּֽל׃

    The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
    Book 21. Ecclesiastes 10:19ff (Eccl 10:19) [tr. NRSV (2021 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/84156/

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  2. A quotation from The Bible

    Feasts are made for laughter,
       wine gladdens life,
       and money meets every need.
     
    לִשְׂחוֹק֙ עֹשִׂ֣ים לֶ֔חֶם וְיַ֖יִן יְשַׂמַּ֣ח חַיִּ֑ים וְהַכֶּ֖סֶף יַעֲנֶ֥ה אֶת־הַכֹּֽל׃

    The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
    Book 21. Ecclesiastes 10:19ff (Eccl 10:19) [tr. NRSV (2021 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/84156/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bvible #thebible #oldtestament #ecclesiastes #cheerfulness #drinking #enjoyment #feast #goodcheer #laughter #merriment #money #needs #party #wealth #wine #gluttony

  3. A quotation from The Bible

    Feasts are made for laughter,
       wine gladdens life,
       and money meets every need.
     
    לִשְׂחוֹק֙ עֹשִׂ֣ים לֶ֔חֶם וְיַ֖יִן יְשַׂמַּ֣ח חַיִּ֑ים וְהַכֶּ֖סֶף יַעֲנֶ֥ה אֶת־הַכֹּֽל׃

    The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
    Book 21. Ecclesiastes 10:19ff (Eccl 10:19) [tr. NRSV (2021 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/84156/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bvible #thebible #oldtestament #ecclesiastes #cheerfulness #drinking #enjoyment #feast #goodcheer #laughter #merriment #money #needs #party #wealth #wine #gluttony

  4. A quotation from The Bible

    Feasts are made for laughter,
       wine gladdens life,
       and money meets every need.
     
    לִשְׂחוֹק֙ עֹשִׂ֣ים לֶ֔חֶם וְיַ֖יִן יְשַׂמַּ֣ח חַיִּ֑ים וְהַכֶּ֖סֶף יַעֲנֶ֥ה אֶת־הַכֹּֽל׃

    The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
    Book 21. Ecclesiastes 10:19ff (Eccl 10:19) [tr. NRSV (2021 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/84156/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bvible #thebible #oldtestament #ecclesiastes #cheerfulness #drinking #enjoyment #feast #goodcheer #laughter #merriment #money #needs #party #wealth #wine #gluttony

  5. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
     
    [Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/

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  6. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
     
    [Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #goodcheer #goodhumor #goodlife #humor #laughter #lifespan #living #longlife #senseofhumor

  7. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
     
    [Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #goodcheer #goodhumor #goodlife #humor #laughter #lifespan #living #longlife #senseofhumor

  8. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
     
    [Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)

    More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #goodcheer #goodhumor #goodlife #humor #laughter #lifespan #living #longlife #senseofhumor

  9. A quotation from Colette

    It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
     
    [Il n’est pas mauvais que les enfants remettent de temps en temps, avec politesse, les parents à leur place.]

    Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) French writer
    My Mother’s House [La Maison de Claudine], “The Priest on the Wall [Le curé sur le mur]” (1922) [tr. Troubridge/McLeod (1949)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/colette-sidonie-gabr…

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  10. A quotation from Colette

    It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
     
    [Il n’est pas mauvais que les enfants remettent de temps en temps, avec politesse, les parents à leur place.]

    Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) French writer
    My Mother’s House [La Maison de Claudine], “The Priest on the Wall [Le curé sur le mur]” (1922) [tr. Troubridge/McLeod (1949)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/colette-sidonie-gabr…

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  11. A quotation from Colette

    It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
     
    [Il n’est pas mauvais que les enfants remettent de temps en temps, avec politesse, les parents à leur place.]

    Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) French writer
    My Mother’s House [La Maison de Claudine], “The Priest on the Wall [Le curé sur le mur]” (1922) [tr. Troubridge/McLeod (1949)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/colette-sidonie-gabr…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #colette #admonishment #advice #benevolence #cheerfulness #correction #disappointment #disarming #gentleness #goodcheer #goodhumor #harm #injury #instruction #kindness #malice #meekness

  12. A quotation from Colette

    It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
     
    [Il n’est pas mauvais que les enfants remettent de temps en temps, avec politesse, les parents à leur place.]

    Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) French writer
    My Mother’s House [La Maison de Claudine], “The Priest on the Wall [Le curé sur le mur]” (1922) [tr. Troubridge/McLeod (1949)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/colette-sidonie-gabr…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #colette #admonishment #advice #benevolence #cheerfulness #correction #disappointment #disarming #gentleness #goodcheer #goodhumor #harm #injury #instruction #kindness #malice #meekness

  13. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Kindness is invincible, if it be sincere and not hypocritical or a mere facade. For what can the most insulting of people do to you if you are consistently kind to him, and, when the occasion allows, gently advise him and quietly put him on the proper course at the very time when he is attempting to do you a mischief. “No, my son, we were born for something other than this; it is not I who am harmed, it is you, my son, who are causing harm to yourself.”
     
    [τὸ εὐμενὲς ἀνίκητον, ἐὰν γνήσιον ᾖ καὶ μὴ σεσηρὸς μηδὲ ὑπόκρισις. τί γάρ σοι ποιήσει ὁ ὑβριστικώτατος, ἐὰν διατελῇς εὐμενὴς αὐτῷ καί, εἰ οὕτως ἔτυχε, πρᾴως παραινῇς καὶ μεταδιδάσκῃς εὐσχολῶν παῤ αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον τὸν καιρὸν ὅτε κακοποιεῖν σε ἐπιχειρεῖ: ῾μή, τέκνον: πρὸς ἄλλο πεφύκαμεν. ἐγὼ μὲν οὐ μὴ βλαβῶ, σὺ δὲ βλάπτῃ, τέκνον.᾿]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Hard (1997 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8198…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #admonishment #advice #benevolence #cheerfulness #correction #disappointment #disarming #gentleness #goodcheer #goodhumor #harm #injury #instruction #kindness #malice #meekness

  14. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Kindness is invincible, if it be sincere and not hypocritical or a mere facade. For what can the most insulting of people do to you if you are consistently kind to him, and, when the occasion allows, gently advise him and quietly put him on the proper course at the very time when he is attempting to do you a mischief. “No, my son, we were born for something other than this; it is not I who am harmed, it is you, my son, who are causing harm to yourself.”
     
    [τὸ εὐμενὲς ἀνίκητον, ἐὰν γνήσιον ᾖ καὶ μὴ σεσηρὸς μηδὲ ὑπόκρισις. τί γάρ σοι ποιήσει ὁ ὑβριστικώτατος, ἐὰν διατελῇς εὐμενὴς αὐτῷ καί, εἰ οὕτως ἔτυχε, πρᾴως παραινῇς καὶ μεταδιδάσκῃς εὐσχολῶν παῤ αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον τὸν καιρὸν ὅτε κακοποιεῖν σε ἐπιχειρεῖ: ῾μή, τέκνον: πρὸς ἄλλο πεφύκαμεν. ἐγὼ μὲν οὐ μὴ βλαβῶ, σὺ δὲ βλάπτῃ, τέκνον.᾿]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Hard (1997 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8198…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #admonishment #advice #benevolence #cheerfulness #correction #disappointment #disarming #gentleness #goodcheer #goodhumor #harm #injury #instruction #kindness #malice #meekness

  15. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Kindness is invincible, if it be sincere and not hypocritical or a mere facade. For what can the most insulting of people do to you if you are consistently kind to him, and, when the occasion allows, gently advise him and quietly put him on the proper course at the very time when he is attempting to do you a mischief. “No, my son, we were born for something other than this; it is not I who am harmed, it is you, my son, who are causing harm to yourself.”
     
    [τὸ εὐμενὲς ἀνίκητον, ἐὰν γνήσιον ᾖ καὶ μὴ σεσηρὸς μηδὲ ὑπόκρισις. τί γάρ σοι ποιήσει ὁ ὑβριστικώτατος, ἐὰν διατελῇς εὐμενὴς αὐτῷ καί, εἰ οὕτως ἔτυχε, πρᾴως παραινῇς καὶ μεταδιδάσκῃς εὐσχολῶν παῤ αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον τὸν καιρὸν ὅτε κακοποιεῖν σε ἐπιχειρεῖ: ῾μή, τέκνον: πρὸς ἄλλο πεφύκαμεν. ἐγὼ μὲν οὐ μὴ βλαβῶ, σὺ δὲ βλάπτῃ, τέκνον.᾿]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Hard (1997 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8198…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #admonishment #advice #benevolence #cheerfulness #correction #disappointment #disarming #gentleness #goodcheer #goodhumor #harm #injury #instruction #kindness #malice #meekness

  16. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Kindness is invincible, if it be sincere and not hypocritical or a mere facade. For what can the most insulting of people do to you if you are consistently kind to him, and, when the occasion allows, gently advise him and quietly put him on the proper course at the very time when he is attempting to do you a mischief. “No, my son, we were born for something other than this; it is not I who am harmed, it is you, my son, who are causing harm to yourself.”
     
    [τὸ εὐμενὲς ἀνίκητον, ἐὰν γνήσιον ᾖ καὶ μὴ σεσηρὸς μηδὲ ὑπόκρισις. τί γάρ σοι ποιήσει ὁ ὑβριστικώτατος, ἐὰν διατελῇς εὐμενὴς αὐτῷ καί, εἰ οὕτως ἔτυχε, πρᾴως παραινῇς καὶ μεταδιδάσκῃς εὐσχολῶν παῤ αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον τὸν καιρὸν ὅτε κακοποιεῖν σε ἐπιχειρεῖ: ῾μή, τέκνον: πρὸς ἄλλο πεφύκαμεν. ἐγὼ μὲν οὐ μὴ βλαβῶ, σὺ δὲ βλάπτῃ, τέκνον.᾿]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Hard (1997 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8198…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #admonishment #advice #benevolence #cheerfulness #correction #disappointment #disarming #gentleness #goodcheer #goodhumor #harm #injury #instruction #kindness #malice #meekness

  17. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

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  18. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

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  19. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

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  20. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #goodattitude #goodwill #attitude #benefactor #cheerfulness #duty #goodcheer #happiness #meme #goodmood

  21. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

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  22. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    Cheerfulness is, in the first place, the best promoter of health. Repinings, and secret murmurs of heart, give imperceptible strokes to those delicate fibres of which the vital parts are composed, and wear out the machine insensibly; not to mention those violent ferments which they stir up in the blood, and those irregular disturbed motions which they raise in the animal spirits.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1712-05-24), The Spectator, No. 387

    More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/79194…

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  23. A quotation from Josh Billings

    Cheerfullness makes the plainest features butiful, the severest winter agreeable; it elevates the lowly, and adds a charm tew grateness, all its own.
     
    [Cheerfulness makes the plainest features beautiful, the severest winter agreeable; it elevates the lowly, and adds a charm to greatness.]

    Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
    Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 281 “Variety: Bred and Butter” (1874)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/78119/

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  24. A quotation from Addison

    Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light, takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-09-13), The Spectator, No. 169

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/6068/

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  25. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 4 (1834)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/60318…

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  26. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 4 (1834)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/60318…

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  27. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 1, ch. 4 (1834)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/60318…

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  28. A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:

    «««««
    No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/carlyle-thomas/60318

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  29. A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:

    «««««
    No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
    »»»»»

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/carlyle-thomas/60318

    #quote #quotes #quotation #character #expression #goodcheer #goodhumor #laughter #wholeheartedness