Quotes related to Proverbs 17:22
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Recreations for a student must be especially for the exercise of his body, he having before him such variety of delights for his mind; and they must be as whetting is with the mower, only to be used so far as is necessary to his work.
— Richard Baxter
Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The single best and easiest thing you can do for your health is to recalibrate your taste buds and learn to enjoy pure clean water.
— Rick Warren
It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.
— Laurence Sterne
Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
To become a better you, you must be positive towards yourself, develop better relationships, embrace the place where you are.
— Joel Osteen
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
— William Temple
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
— William Temple
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
— Winston Churchill
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
— Winston Churchill