Humor Quotes
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"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."
-Agnes Repplier
-Agnes Repplier
"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself."
-Clifton Fadiman
-Clifton Fadiman
"Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."
-E. B. White
-E. B. White
"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them."
-Lewis Mumford
-Lewis Mumford
"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"
-Dick Clark
-Dick Clark
"Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him."
-Romain Gary
-Romain Gary
"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."
-Victor Borge
-Victor Borge
"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."
-Max Eastman
-Max Eastman
"I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think you can't ever get enough of and, if it's done well, it's great. When it's bad, it's horrible."
-Sandra Bullock
-Sandra Bullock
"Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so bad it eventually blew out the back of his head."
-Stephen Colbert
-Stephen Colbert
"The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities."
-Robertson Davies
-Robertson Davies
"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."
-James Thurber
-James Thurber
"Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it."
-Salma Hayek
-Salma Hayek
"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
-John Kenneth Galbraith
"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them."
-Simon Wiesenthal
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