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Friday, 21 November 2008
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"There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American." (Twain, Mark - America)

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Browse Quotations about Humor

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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.
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
As a person is so must you humor them.
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Even the gods love jokes.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Fortune and humor govern the world.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
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.
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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.
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.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
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
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
In the end, everything is a gag.
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.