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    Humor For A Cheerful And Happy Life
    Humor For A Cheerful And Happy Life
    Humor For A Cheerful And Happy Life
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    Humor For A Cheerful And Happy Life

    By James Bonn

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    This book is full of wacky ideas and is aimed at bringing thrills, cheers and fun to anyone who takes the trouble to peruse it. There is much ludicrousness and irony in the book, particularly in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 which are the main chapters, which may give the impression that the author is a crackpot. Not to worry much, for crackpots can be very entertaining. The perceptive reader should be able to see some method in all the madness in the book.

    The loonyness in the book, of which the following are some examples, cannot be understated:-

    (i)   Ladies look beautiful to get hitched. After marriage, they may not care about their looks and may look like husband's mother, or, grandma.

    (ii)  Science Fact: Negative particles attract positive ones. Ugly Person's Hope: Hope ugliness (negative) attracts beauty (positive).

    (iii) Example Of Defense Of Ugliness: Ugly one when called ugly retorts "I'll get you glasses/better glasses so that you can clearly see beauty."

    (iv) A man may tell an ugly lady "Don't waste money on plastic surgery. After I change to more powerful glasses you'll look beautiful."

    Et al.

    See bedlam and a mad, mad, mad world unfold.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Bonn
    Release dateMay 30, 2016
    ISBN9781533762849
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      Book preview

      Humor For A Cheerful And Happy Life - James Bonn

      HUMOR FOR A CHEERFUL AND HAPPY LIFE

      PREFACE

      First, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Bonn, James Bonn. I am a secret humorist. I would like to have the code name or alias 003.142 (pi) and the license to thrill.

      Second, allow me to introduce ...... sorry, I can’t think of any second item and shall proceed to the final item.

      Finally and at last, allow me to introduce my book. This book has been written out of a sense of thrill and adventure. There is much to savor in the book such as interesting things about people, entertainment and beauty. The book has been created with the following grandiose objectives in mind:-

      (a) Make the happy happier.

      (b) Make the sad happy.

      (c) Act as anti-depressant for the depressed.

      (d) Make the suicidal want to live longer to enjoy more humor.

      (e) Make readers humorous/more humorous and spread cheers/more cheers.

      (f) Bring more peace and harmony through humor.

      (g) Lessen/eliminate conflicts through humor.

      (h) Make life more worthy of living through humor.

      (i) Make humor replace quarrelling, fighting and other troubles.

      (j) Make readers raise their voices in laughter instead of dispute or quarrel.

      (k) Other unmentionable objectives.

      A too tall order for a book? Perhaps. But I’m tall and big enough in body and mind for this tall challenge. Anyway there’s no harm trying and I shouldn’t be short of trying in my attempt to achieve this tall order. After all there’s no penalty for failure. Though I may fail to achieve these tall, gigantic objectives I shouldn’t fail to try to achieve them. In fact I’m extremely proud to say here that I’ve already succeeded, that is, succeeded in trying. Never say never again.

      The world today is a much troubled world, with great unrest, unhappiness and gloom. To some life doesn’t seem to offer much in terms of happiness, fun and peace of mind. If one were to take all this seriously one might question the point of living in this troubled world.

      As we need to live we might as well live with joy, humor and fun. This book aims at bringing  liveliness and fun through humor, wit and jokes. It also aims at making one think more deeply about life in a funny way. A number of thought-provoking quotes are also added. We need to be able to laugh at ourselves and others. Laugh and enjoy. Cheers!

      Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment – Grenville Kleiser

      P.S.: Some readers may feel that with the above-mentioned noble objectives I ought to be

      working in an organization like the United Nations. Any job in the United Nations for me?

      James Bonn   

      CONTENTS

      1. Quotable Quotes

      2. Wit

      3. Humor, Parodies And Jokes One

      4. Humor, Parodies And Jokes Two

      5. Conclusion

      1  QUOTABLE QUOTES

      [1]   In each of us there is a little of all of us – Lichtenburg

      [2]  The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin –

      Moliere

      [3]   Superstition is the religion of feeble minds – Burke

      [4]   Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them – David Hume

      [5]   A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes

      outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can get themselves no limit – George

      Santayana

      [6]   Mentally and bodily endowed men are the most modest while, on the other hand, all who

      have some peculiar mental defect think a great deal more of themselves – Goethe

      [7]   A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases, it will never pass into

      nothingness – Keats

      [8]   You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean. If a few drops of the ocean

      are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty – Mohandas K. Gandhi

      [9]   It would be well for all of us to remember that suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than

      right and unfair and unjust than fair. It is a first cousin to prejudice and persecution and an

      unhealthy weed that grows with them – Dr. Francis J. Braceland

      [10] The mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are

      interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, ungrateful

      and malignant, and never quite in touch with reality – Cyril Connolly

      [11] Life is the art of being well deceived – Hazlitt

      [12] To have enough is good luck, to have more than enough is harmful. This is true of all

      things, but especially of money – Chuang Tse

      [13] Every man carries within him a potential madman – Carlyle

      [14] Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret – Benjamin Disraeli

      [15] In all superstitions, wise men follow fools – Francis Bacon

      [16] Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent,

      genius – A. Miel

      [17] The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way – Henry Miller

      [18] What would it be like to enter a day which was an immense cube of colorless, flavorless

      gelatin? – Lucie McKee

      [19] Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall – Old Testament,  

      Proverbs XVI – 19

      [20] Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his belief to his

      conduct, or from one part of his belief to another – Macaulay

      [21] Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and exceptions which we

      find solely associated with the mind of man – Karl Pearson

      [22] Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months –

      Oscar Wilde

      [23] Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason which the

      law affirms and which the experience of the best of our elders have sanctioned as truly

      great – Plato

      [24] Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything – Rivarol

      [25] If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found melancholy in a man’s heart – Burton,

      Anatomy Of Melancholy

      [26] Travel in the younger is a part of education; in the older, a part of experience – Bacon

      [27] God puts something good and lovable in every man, His hands create – Mark Twain

      [28] No legacy is so rich as honesty – Shakespeare

      [29] Society lives by faith, and develops by science – Amiel

      [30] No man is really old until his mother stops worrying about him – William Ryan

      [31] Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed – Bovee

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