501 private quotes tagged humor

“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.” — George Herbert

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“Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.” — Bill Nye

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“Gags die, humor doesn't.” — Jack Benny

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“All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.” — Fred Allen

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“Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.” — Allen Klein

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“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.” — Sid Caesar

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“Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.” — Allen Klein

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“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.” — Max Eastman

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“Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.” — Flip Wilson

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“What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.” — Bernard Williams

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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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“The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.” — Peter De Vries

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“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.” — William James

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“There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.” — Robert Benchley

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“Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.” — Agnes Repplier

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“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.” — Edward de Bono

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“The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.” — Jacob August Riis

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“One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.” — Larry Gelbart

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“When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.” — Thomas W. Higginson

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“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.” — Frank A. Clark

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“One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.” — Ralph Fiennes

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“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.” — Lin Yutang

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“Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.” — Thomas W. Higginson

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“There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.” — Thomas W. Higginson

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“Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.” — Laurel Lee

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