Quotes on humor
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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Francis Bacon Quotes
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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Peter Ustinov Quotes
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.
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Leo Rosten Quotes
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
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Frank A. Clark Quotes
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.
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Ron Dentinger Quotes
Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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Irvin S. Cobb Quotes
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.
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Bill Kelly Quotes
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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English Proverb Quotes
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
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Thomas W. Higginson Quotes
Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
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Abe Burrows Quotes
Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.
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Taki Quotes
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.
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George Saintsbury Quotes
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Humor is reason gone mad.
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Groucho Marx Quotes
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
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Max Eastman Quotes
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
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Sid Caesar Quotes
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.
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Hugh Sidey Quotes
I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
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William James Quotes
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
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Peter De Vries Quotes
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.
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William Davis Quotes
I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
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James Grover Thurber Quotes
Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?
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Aristophanes Quotes