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Image of James Thurber
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
- James Thurber
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Image of Charles Churchill
A joke's a very serious thing.
- Charles Churchill
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Image of Robert Benchley
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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Image of Christopher Morley
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
- Christopher Morley
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Image of W. Somerset Maugham
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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Image of Rita Mae Brown
Humor comes from self-confidence.
- Rita Mae Brown
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Image of Jack Benny
Gags die, humor doesn't.
- Jack Benny
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Image of Langston Hughes
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
- Langston Hughes
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Image of J. B. Priestley
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
- J. B. Priestley
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Image of Victor Borge
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
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Image of Mark Twain
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of Bob Hope
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
- Bob Hope
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Image of Francoise Sagan
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
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Image of Lin Yutang
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
- Lin Yutang
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Image of Clifton Fadiman
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
- Clifton Fadiman
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Image of Peter De Vries
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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Image of W. Somerset Maugham
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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Image of Mary Kay Blakely
Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
- Mary Kay Blakely
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Image of Erma Bombeck
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
- Erma Bombeck
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Image of Irvin S. Cobb
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
- Irvin S. Cobb
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Image of Bernard Williams
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
- Bernard Williams
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Image of Jessamyn West
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
- Jessamyn West
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Image of Edward Albee
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
- Edward Albee
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Image of Allen Klein
Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
- Allen Klein
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Image of Max Eastman
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
- Max Eastman
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Image of Doug Larson
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
- Doug Larson
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Image of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Image of Larry Gelbart
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
- Larry Gelbart
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Image of George Jean Nathan
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
- George Jean Nathan
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Image of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Image of Debbie Gibson
I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!
- Debbie Gibson
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Image of Oliver Goldsmith
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
- Oliver Goldsmith
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Image of Don Herold
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
- Don Herold
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Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Image of Chevy Chase
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
- Chevy Chase
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Image of Rachel Dratch
If it gets laughs, it's funny.
- Rachel Dratch
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Image of Bil Keane
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
- Bil Keane
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Image of Matt LeBlanc
You can't be funny if you don't have good material.
- Matt LeBlanc
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Image of Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Puns are a form of humor with words.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Image of Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Image of Agnes Repplier
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
- Agnes Repplier
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Image of Fred Allen
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
- Fred Allen
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Image of George Herbert
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
- George Herbert
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Image of David Hyde Pierce
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.
- David Hyde Pierce
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Image of Allen Klein
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
- Allen Klein
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Image of Allen Klein
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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Image of Betty White
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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Image of Tyler, The Creator
I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.
- Tyler, The Creator
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