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“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”— Mark Twain
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“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”— Mark Twain
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“Wit is the lowest form of humor.”— Alexander Pope
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“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.”— Steve Jobs
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“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.”— Don Rickles
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“Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”— Robert Frost
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“A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?”— Bob Hope
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“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
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“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”— E. B. White
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“Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.”— William Makepeace Thackeray
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“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.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“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.”— Allen Klein
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“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.”— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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“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.”— Betty White
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“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.”— H. L. Mencken
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“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.”— Ambrose Bierce
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“The secret to humor is surprise.”— Aristotle
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“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”— Mark Twain
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“The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.”— Mark Twain
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“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”— Francis Bacon
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“A joke is a very serious thing.”— Winston Churchill
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“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities: a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt