#mirth — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
But solitude for its own sake should surely never be preferred. We are bound by the strongest obligations to busy ourselves amid the world of men, if it be only to crack jokes.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 4.3 “Solitude and Society”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #beingalone #engagement #humannature #humor #jokes #merriment #mirth #socialties #socializing #society #solitude
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Have you heard the one about the gynaecologist, who after many years of plying his trade, wanted to learn some new skills. So he took an evening motor mechanics course at tech.
At the end of the semester, he was given a test where he had to strip a motor down and reassemble it. When he got the results back of the exam, his score was 150/100.
Thinking this was mistake, he queried it with his instructor. He was told: "I gave you 50% for stripping the motor down, and 50% for reassembly a beautiful job, couldn't have done it better myself - and 50% for doing it all through the muffler!"
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Golfer got married and sitting on edge of bed on wedding night and says to wife, "Honey I must confess I'm a golf nut and I play every day all day. However, you can always count on me for supper and the evening."
Wife Says. "Honey, I must confess, Before we got married I was a hooker."
Husband said. "That's OK -- to straighten out a hook put your left foot forward and turn your hands to the left."
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A couple married forty years were revisiting the same places they went to on their honeymoon. Driving through the secluded countryside, they passed a ranch with a tall deer fence running along the road.
The woman said, "Sweetheart, let's do the same thing we did here forty years ago."
The guy stopped the car. His wife backed against the fence, and he immediately jumped her bones like a bass on a junebug. They made love like never before.
Back in the car, the guy says, "Darlin', you sure never moved like that forty years ago--or any time since that I can remember!"
The woman says, "Forty years ago that goddamn fence
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A cop pulls over a car load of nuns..
COP: "Sister, this is a 65MPH zone, why are you going so slow?
NUN: "Sir, I saw a lot of signs that said 22, not 65"
COP:"Oh Sister, that's not the speed limit, that's the name of the highway you are on."
NUN:"Oh! Silly me! Thanks for letting me know. I'll be more careful"
At this point the cop looks in the backseat where the other nuns are shaking and trembling.
COP:"Excuse me, SIster, what's wrong with your friends back there? They're shaking something terrible."
NUN:"Oh, we just got off highway 119"
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Mirth’s made by sharing
Smiles chuckles a wink and nod
Bright laughs in dark rooms#haiku #poetry #SmallPoems
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Profuse gentle grace,
mirth returns without warning,
Peace of mind and soul -
Unicursal THANKSGIVING Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information https://hermetic.com/information/thanksgiving/index
#propaganda #thelema #AleisterCrowley #MassOfThePhoenix #entered #woe #mirth #GoForth #thanksgiving #pleasure #earth #legions #living
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Shitposting in pursuit of mirth is no vice!
#Vice #Shitposting #Mirth -
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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #attitude #beauty #charm #cheer #cheerfulness #exuberance #goodcheer #goodnature #greatness #hardship #mirth
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As I age ever closer to the great inevitability, things which once seemed very important to me are diminishing rapidly in importance, and hardly concern me at all. Things like acquisitiveness, my appearance, social propriety, and what others may think of me.
However, I am just as amused as I ever was by the stupid things that used to amuse me.
Many of them originate in my own mind and come out of my own mouth.
#Age #FacingTheInevitable #Humor #Mirth -
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…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jollity #character #cheerfulness #expression #goodcheer #goodhumor #guffaw #laughter #mirth #wholeheartedness
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/34941…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #mood #emotion #cheer #cheerfulness #gladness #goodhumor #laughter #merriment #mirth #positiveattitude #serenity
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Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-05-17), The Spectator, No. 381Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/1440/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #attitude #cheer #cheerfulness #mirth #peace #serenity
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And yet what harm can there be
in presenting the truth with a laugh, as teachers sometimes give
their children biscuits to coax them into learning their ABC?
[Quamquam ridentem dicere verum
quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi
doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet and satirist [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 24ff (1.1.24-26) (35 BC) [tr. Rudd (2005 ed.)]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/74618/
#quote #quotes #quotation #bribery #education #humor #laughter #mirth #sweets #teaching #treats #truth #truthtelling
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Can anyone recommend good #OpenSource, #CloudNative #messaging brokers with a more product-oriented approach? I was thinking Nextgen #Mirth Connect, but with a modern UI and a good developer experience. I am basically looking for persistent queues that are easy to monitor with a dashboard, HTTP interfaces and support for filter and transformation logic.
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A quotation from Fuller, Thomas (1608):
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And know, reader, that an ounce of mirth, with the same degree of grace, will serve God farther than a pound of sadness.
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https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1608/59508/#quote #quotes #quotation #cheer #cheerfulness #God #mirth #sadness #sorrow #virtue
