“Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.” Has BeensHumorHappensLawKnownLawyerInnocentClientsJuryReluctantTriumphantVerdictAcquittal Book:De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings Source: De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings
“I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayLongHumorHappensPainTermEffectsPerspectiveConstantEndlessComicLong TermSensibilityRenewalShort TermCopingFilters Author:Woody Allen
“I have always employed humor, and I think it’s absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion. I mean, you can compel fear, as we know. You can compel love, actually, if somebody is isolated and dependent — it’s like the Stockholm syndrome. But you can’t compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and make a third unexpectedly. It happens when you learn something, too.” KnowsMeanTwoHumorHappensTogetherEmotionLaughterThirdsTwo ThingsLove Actually Author:Gloria Steinem