Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. – Bob Newhart
I dont know how many sacred cows there are today. I think theres a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. Thats kind of regrettable. – Bob Newhart
I dont like country music, but I dont mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down. – Bob Newhart
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage. – Bob Newhart
A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. – Author unknown, from an editorial in New-York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for
In response to our fast-food culture, a slow food movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage. – Arlie Russell Hochschild