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| Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one’s bottom. ~ Taki |
| 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 |
| Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. ~ Irvin S. Cobb |
| 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 |
| Humor results when society says you can’t scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public. ~ Tom Walsh |
| Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I’m rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations. ~ Ron Dentinger |
| Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. ~ Author Unknown |
| 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 |
| Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. ~ James Thurber |
| 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 |
| If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ~ Mahatma Gandhi |
| The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ~ Peter De Vries |
| Humor is just another defense against the universe. ~ Mel Brooks |
| Humor is reason gone mad. ~ Groucho Marx |
| A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ~ Peter Ustinov |
| Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. ~ Sid Caesar |
| Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. ~ Ellie Katz |
| Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. ~ George Saintsbury |
| Humor is… despair refusing to take itself seriously. ~ Arland Ussher |
| Humor is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. ~ Mary Hirsch |
| I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ~ Frank A. Clark |
| Above all else: go out with a sense of humor. It 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 |
| There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. ~ Thomas W. Higginson |
| Let your humour always be good-humour, in the double sense of the phrase: if it comes from a bad humour, it is almost sure to be bad humour. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, |
| Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events. ~ E.T. "Cy" Eberhart |
| Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ~ Max Eastman |
| A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs – jolted by every pebble in the road. ~ Henry Ward Beecher |
| There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. ~ Victor Borge, London |