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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It'...
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Henry Ward Beecher
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
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Mignon McLaughlin
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the jo...
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Clifton Paul Fadiman
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laugh...
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Hugh Sidey
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of h...
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Jessamyn West
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your ...
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William A. Ward
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested a...
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E. B. White
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a litt...
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Sid Caesar
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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Peter Ustinov
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at differ...
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William James
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not...
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Mark Twain
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less fri...
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Agnes Repplier
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their eart...
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Agnes Repplier
Humor is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's super...
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Romain Cary
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Mel Brooks
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
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Mark Twain
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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Irvin S. Cobb
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serio...
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Oscar W. Firkins
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness tha...
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Christopher Morley
Humor is reason gone mad.
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Groucho Marx
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some va...
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limi...
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Victor Borge
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
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Leo Rosten
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, al...
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Mark Twain
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
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Max Eastman
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is...
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Leo Rosten
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
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Edward Albee
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor...
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Frank A. Clark
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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Mohandas Gandhi
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life...
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Jennifer Jones
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a s...
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Francis Bacon
Legs are hereditary and run in most families
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Spike Milligan
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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Larry Gelbart
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five sec...
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William Davis
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
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Jacob August Riis
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back al...
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Peter De Vries
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as a...
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Thomas W. Higginson
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the ch...
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Lin Yutang
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Erma Bombeck
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Alexander Pope
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can fi...
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Bill Cosby
You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They ...
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Tommy Cooper