“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”
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“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”
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“Wit is the lowest form of humor.”
“I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.”
“Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”
“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
“A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?”
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
“Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
“You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.”
“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”
“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”
“Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.”
“In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”
“It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.”
“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities: a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
“A joke is a very serious thing.”
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
“The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
“Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.”
“The secret to humor is surprise.”
“Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.”
“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”
“There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.”