Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

In looking for humor keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly over time gain in political significance.

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

When the Nobel award came my way it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions including literacy basic health care and gender equity aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and at the same time with my wife and family.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions but an immediate insight self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Without a Mayaguez or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

Well clearly for me in the immediate future it is grappling like so many other governors are grappling with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.

The question of armaments whether on land or sea is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it but is always breaking away from the present moment and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

Whatever the immediate gains and losses the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do these are not our values.

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated if capital and population increased more food would be required and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality buy organic buy natural go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately instead of at three o clock in the morning.

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate and that gives me the motivation to continue.

The famous saying 'God is love' it is generally assumed means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.