HUMOUR

 

          HUMOUR

Humour is the quality which makes something funny or amusing. It is also the ability to laugh at things that are amusing. Furthermore,   it  stands for the state of one’s feelings or mind at a particular time.

If a person is out of humour , he is in a bad mood. If one humourless, he/she lacks the ability to laugh at things that other people think are amusing.

For good health and constant happiness,  it is desirable to be always  good-humoured.

A humorous story or event is funny, comic, witty, jocular, amusing, laughable, hilarious, ridiculous, absurd, ludicrous; and a humorous person is one who is funny, amusing, entertaining, witty, jocular, etc.

If you are not humorous, you are, serious, grave, solemn, earnest, un-smiling, un-laughing, pensive, stern, grim, long-faced, etc.

  The English novelist William  Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) said: Good humour is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

According to the American divine Henry Giles (1809-82) : “Wit may be a thing of pure imagination, but humour involves sentiment and character , ---Humour is of a genial quality; dwells in the same character with pathos, and is always mingled with sensibility.”

Another American divine George Cheever (1807-90) said: For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever present sense of humour; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

Finally, a famous quote : Life is nothing without a good sense of humour.

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G.R.Kanwal

19 September 2024