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.
An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than up steps. Never mind! win the good opinions of washerwomen and such like, and in time you will hear of their recommendations of you to the wealthier families by whom they are employed. " I did so, and found it succeed as predicted.
Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly.
I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway Culver of Hancock County, Georgia, had 42 slaves, 31 "employed in agriculture. " Culver was my great-great-great grandfather. I carry this piece of paper with me every day because I don't want to forget. I don't know what to do with the information, but I don't want to forget it.
trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.
It is better to be idle than employed in ill.
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.
If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
I want to build something I’d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.
Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.
The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.