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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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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When humor goes, there goes civilization. Erma Bombeck
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Humor is just another defense against the universe. Mel Brooks
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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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A joke is a very serious thing. Winston Churchill
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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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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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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 Fadiman
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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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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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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. Mohandas Gandhi
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. Larry Gelbart
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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 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 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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. Leo Rosten
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Wit is the lowest form of humor. Alexander Pope
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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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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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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. Mark Twain
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. 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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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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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. Lin Yutang
