What i value more than all things, good humor.
Interpretation
Good humor is more important to me than anything else.
In this quote, Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the significance of good humor in life. He suggests that the ability to maintain a cheerful and light-hearted perspective is paramount, surpassing material possessions or other values, which reflects an understanding of the importance of joy and laughter in human experience.
In practice
In a speech about mental health, one might quote Jefferson to highlight the role of humor in well-being.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
Things I wonder about the FBI's list of the "Ten Most Wanted" criminals: When they catch a guy and he comes off the list, does number eleven automatically move up? And does he see it as a promotion? Does he call his criminal friends and say, "I made it, Bruno. I'm finally on the list"?
I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it.
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