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Your Quotes for 32 March 2006 - Serious Business

In certain cultures it has become traditional to indulge in a certain foolishness on what was, before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, the beginning of the new year. All of us on the staff at Quotes of the Day consider this a very real problem. Now that winter is behind us, the serious business of the year is waiting for our attention. For every one of us, our success in all areas of life depends critically on how well we take advantage of the energies of this season. What we do not plant now, we shall not reap come autumn. To waste time sending each other on fools' errands just because it is 1 April cannot be tolerated. Therefore, we are taking the logical and prudent step of eliminating that date from this year's calendar.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
     - Baltasar Gracian, 1601 - 1656

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.
     - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.
     - Garrison Keillor

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
     - Georg Christopher Lichtenberg, 1742 - 1799

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
     - Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935

I've decided to be a dull, morose bore at these press meetings. It's the only safe course. You give me no choice. I tell a joke and you convert it into an international incident. I coin a whimsical term and you make it appear I am at odds with the President. I indulge in some polite banter and you interpret it as a split in the Party.
     - Everett McKinley Dirksen, 1896 - 1969

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