Workplace/Office Humor

 

 

If hard work was such a wonderful thing, the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
—  Lane Kirkland

Office Humor Is Good for You!

Laugh Now, Cry Later as You Read Jokes about the Workplace

More on this in due time:

Another day gone and no jokes.
— Flann O'Brien

Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion is too much for me.
— Thomas Love Peacock

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranzuility.
— James Thurber

 Six Secrets to Being a Successful Humorist

Since his days as a contributor to National Lampoon, Bruce McCall, above all, has looked at himself as a humorist.

McCall is successful at what he does given that the expatriate Canadian author and illustrator, who now lives in New York, has had over 200 pieces published in The New Yorker.

Even so, McCall still submits all his work on spec and is surprised when a project is accepted. Obviously, McCall is on of those able subjects who are most likely to underestimate their own ability.

Here are McCall's "Ways to Become A Successful Humorist," which he recently shared with a group of fans in Toronto:

1. Be scared, unhappy, and an outcast as a kid.
2. Drop out of high school.
3. Spend time alone.
4. Don't take a comedy course.
5. Read other humorists but don't worship them.
6. Don't get your hopes up.

 

You Know You Are Having

 a Bad Day When:
 

1. You wake up and the sun is rising over the curb.
2. Your car horn sticks blaring away while there is a pack of Hells Angels on motorcycles ahead of you slowing.

The Importance of Being Leisurely While You Work

Men of lofty genius are most active when they are doing the least work.
— Leonardo da Vinci

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
— Jeanne-Maire Roland

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
— Bertrand Russell

Humor Quotes, Quips, and Jokes about Why Office Humor and Laughter Is Good for You

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
— David Ogilvy

Laugh often. Starting your day with a good laugh, or at least a big smile, is as beneficial to your health as it is to your mood. Scientific studies at Northwestern University and Fordham University concluded that laughter benefits the heart, lungs, stomach and other organs. It relaxes tensions, changes attitude, and increases the body's natural painkillers. And it has no harmful side effects.
— Harvey Mackay

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
— Molière

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
— Romain Gary

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
— Oscar Wilde

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
— Eugène Ionesco

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.
— William K. Zinsser

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
— Will Rogers

He who laughs, lasts.
— Mary Pettibone Poole

He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
— Unknown wise person

Time spent in laughter is well invested.
— Unknown wise person

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.
— Robert G. Ingersoll

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
— The Koran

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
— Victor Borge

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
— Will Rogers

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
— Robert Benchley

Even the Gods love jokes.
— Plato

 Check Out:

Retirement Humor at the Retirement Quotes Cafe

Graffiti for the Employees' Soul

Workplace Office Humor Guide

Retirement Humor on the How to Retire Happy Website

 

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