Humor
- Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.--E. B. White
- Everything has two sides--the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.--Olive Schreiner
- 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 keep friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.--Greenville Kleisser
- Health and good humor are to the human body like sunshine to vegetation.--Jean-Baptiste Massillon
- How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.--Ogden Nash
- Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to take ourselves more lightly in the presence of good humor. Humor gives us the strength to bear what cannot be changed, and the sight to see the human under the pompous.--Joan Chittister
- Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?--Anonymous
- Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of surprises.--Erma Bombeck (in "She Said What? Interviews With Newspaper Columnists")
- Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.--Romain Gary (Promise At Dawn)
- Humor is an antidote to isolation.--Elizabeth Janeway (Improper Behavior)
- Humor is contagious. Laughter is infectious. Both are good for your health.--William Fry
- Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.--Mark Twain (Mark Twain, a Biography)
- Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.--Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world, like grace and shines on everyone.--Garrison Keillor
- Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.--Agnes Varda
- Humor is that which most efficiently recognizes that we are living in an imperfect world, with imperfect arguments and things that are insane, illogical, and irrational. And the only way we can live with that fact is to laugh.--J. Barsoux
- Humor offers an alternative to violence… Humor gives us a choice.--Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.
- Humor opposes directly those emotions which have been specifically recorded as being associated with precipitation of heart attack. These emotions are fear and rage. Humor acts to relieve hear. Rage is impossible when mirth prevails.--Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.
- Humor was for her a kind of social salt; and salt not only adds savor, it reserves.--Bertha Damon
- I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.--Dr. Seuss
- I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.--Anne Wilson Schaef
- If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. Yeah, I told 'em I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.--Jane Wagner
- If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.--Lord Chesterfield
- Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.--George Mikes
- A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.--Billy Graham
- Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.--Langston Hughes
- My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.--Maya Angelou
- 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
- A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable.--Moshe Waldoks
- A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.--Raymond Moody
- A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?--Bob Hope
- 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
- A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quickly than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.--Moss Hart (Act One)
- There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes … we don't. Still, the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.--Allen Klein (The Lift-Your-Spirits Quote Book)
- There's a ... distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.--Dorothy Parker (in Writers At Work by Cowley)
- There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.--Eva Hoffman (Exit into History)
- To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone--Reba McIntyre (Comfort From a Country Quilt)
- Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.--Ellie Katz
- When humor goes, there goes civilization.--Erma Bombeck
- When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?--Carol Burnett
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