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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

- Johnson, Samuel

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One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Proverb, Chinese

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Socrates

Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Albee, Edward

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Strachey, Lionel

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.

Clark, Dick

Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Colby, Frank Moore

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

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