Humor Quotations
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James Thurber
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| Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. |
| - Aristotle |
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| Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. |
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| Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. |
| - Francis Bacon |
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| A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road. |
| - Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. |
| - Robert Benchley |
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| Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. |
| - Edward de Bono |
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| There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. |
| - Victor Borge |
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| Humor is just another defense against the universe. |
| - Mel Brooks |
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| Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. |
| - Mel Brooks |
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| That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. |
| - Alan Whitney Brown |
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| All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. |
| - Charlie Chaplin |
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| I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. |
| - Frank A. Clark |
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| Total absence of humor renders life impossible. |
| - Colette |
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| Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. |
| - Max Eastman |
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| A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. |
| - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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| Humor is also a way of saying something serious. |
| - T.S. Eliot |
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| If there’s one thing I know it’s God does love a good joke. |
| - Hugh Elliott |
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| Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. |
| - John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. |
| - Mahatma Gandhi |
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| There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. |
| - Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
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| Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. |
| - William James |
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| After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor. |
| - Bill Kelly |
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| Humor is reason gone mad. |
| - Groucho Marx |
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| A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. |
| - Christopher Morley |
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| Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. |
| - Bill Nye |
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| Many a true word is spoken in jest. |
| - English Proverb |
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| There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. |
| - Leo Rosten |
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| A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. |
| - Hugh Sidey |
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| Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. |
| - James Thurber |
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| The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. |
| - James Thurber |
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| The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. |
| - James Thurber |
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| Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. |
| - Peter Ustinov |
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| The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. |
| - Peter De Vries |
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| Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. |
| - E.B. White |
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