Humor Quotes and Sayings
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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. Edward Albee
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All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it. Fred Allen
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The secret to humor is surprise. Aristotle
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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. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. Henry Ward Beecher
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There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. Robert Benchley
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Gags die, humor doesn't. Jack Benny
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. Ambrose Bierce
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When humor goes, there goes civilization. Erma Bombeck
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. Edward de Bono
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. 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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Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. Sid Caesar
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A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. Chevy Chase
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A joke is a very serious thing. Winston Churchill
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I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. Frank Howard Clark
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. Irvin S. Cobb
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There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God. Bill Cosby
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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. Bill Cosby
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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. Max Eastman
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. Clifton Paul Fadiman
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. W. C. Fields
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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. John Kenneth Galbraith
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. Larry Gelbart
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. George Herbert
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A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. Don Herold
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. Thomas W. Higginson
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear. Thomas W. Higginson
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There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. Thomas W. Higginson
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When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence. Thomas W. Higginson
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. Langston Hughes
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. Langston Hughes
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Puns are a form of humor with words. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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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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If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. Jennifer Jones
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Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. Allen Klein
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Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. Allen Klein
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A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. Doug Larson
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Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. Groucho Marx
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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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My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing. Emo Philips
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Wit is the lowest form of humor. Alexander Pope
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. J. B. Priestley
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. Agnes Repplier
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. Agnes Repplier
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The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. Jacob August Riis
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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. 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 a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. James Thurber
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. James Thurber
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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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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. William Arthur Ward
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. Jessamyn West
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. E. B. White
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What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. Bern Williams
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Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. Flip Wilson
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Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. Steven Wright
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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. Lin Yutang
