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Humor

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

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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Albee, Edward

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

Mary Hirsch

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Thurber, James

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

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Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Keillor, Garrison

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Socrates

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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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Humor is, I think, the sublets 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

Rosten, Leo

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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.

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