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Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens. -- John Agard
Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis. -- Vinton Cerf
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin. -- Ned Rorem
Humor plays close to the big hot fire which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat. -- E.b. White
Humor is the mask of wisdom. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways. -- Sam Ervin
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. -- Lynda Barry
Trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world. -- Kate Atkinson
Humor is probably species specific -- Anna C. Salter
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon. -- Carl Hiaasen
Good-humor makes all things tolerable -- Henry Ward Beecher
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor. -- Edward De Bono
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. -- Tom Robbins
Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery. -- Bill Mauldin
As a species, we would not have survived without humor. -- Jane Hamilton
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it. -- John Millington Synge
There is nothing harder to explain than humor. -- Milan Kundera
Humor is not an end in itself, but a tool to understanding. A dense head must be tickled with an ax. -- Bauvard
Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes. -- Joel Goodman
Humor is a part of spirituality. -- Zooey Deschanel
Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. -- Roger L'estrange
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. -- Stephen Leacock
Humor bridges the weight of serious reflection. -- Lorin Morgan-Richards
With humour, there is life. -- Jr
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. -- Rufus Wainwright
Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice. -- Ayn Rand
Humor is the observation of an unprejudiced heart -- Marsha Boulton
Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated. -- P. J. O'rourke
Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects. -- James Fadiman
A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life. -- Richard G. Scott
The secret to humor is surprise. -- Aristotle.
Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour. -- Jonathan Swift
Humor is reason gone mad. -- Groucho Marx
Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less. -- Louis Kronenberger
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. -- Romain Gary
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. -- Simon Wiesenthal
One does not have humor. It has you. -- Larry Gelbart
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. -- James Thurber
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
Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it. -- Austin O'malley
Humor tells you where the trouble is. -- Louise Bernikow
Humor is man's greatest blessing. -- Mark Twain
Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
If its not for humor, life would too bland. -- Krishna Saagar
Humor is an antidote to all ills. -- Patch Adams
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. -- Mark Twain
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. -- Steve Allen
Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so. -- Simon Critchley
Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives. -- Frederick Lenz
Humor is such a great gift - why leave it to chance? -- Joel Goodman
Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had. -- Robert Mankoff
Humor is a universal language. -- Joel Goodman
Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell. -- Will Cuppy
The truth is often found in humour. -- Nick Pollack
Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first
before it boomerangs. -- Langston Hughes
Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility -- Thomas Jefferson
Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people. -- Garrison Keillor
Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. -- Oscar W. Firkins
Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you. -- John Waters
We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching Chechnya that I came to understand this. -- Anthony Marra
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be. -- Stephen Leacock
Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual. -- P. J. O'rourke
Humor is just another defense against the
universe. -- Mel Brooks
Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension. -- Lorrie Moore
Humor is a univeral language. -- Joel Goodman
I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean? -- Martin Lawrence
Humour is the shortest road from one person to another. -- Georges Wolinski
Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it. -- Mark Twain
I don't know what humor is. -- Will Rogers
Fortune and humor govern the world. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, 'nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition. -- Sena Jeter Naslund
Humor is also a way of saying something serious. -- T. S. Eliot
Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour. -- George Grossmith
Humor is the ovum of dissent, -- David Mitchell
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion. -- Elizabeth Peters
Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years. -- Marianne Moore
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence. -- Thomas Carlyle
Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school. -- Richard Peck
Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along. -- Allen Klein
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable. -- Billy Graham
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure. -- Agnes Repplier
Humor is a great way to relieve stress. -- Christina Maslach
Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody. -- Garrison Keillor
I know all about human suffering, but I can't imagine a world without humor. It's one of the most important tools we have." I -- Abby Fabiaschi
Humor is a way for them to deal with the hardships they will soon face -- Anonymous
Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak
like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support
something that ought to be arrested. -- Mark Twain
Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Most people don't understand what humor is. They think it's something lighthearted and cheerful. Like 'good humor.' But it isn't. It's looking into the darkness and spitting at it with a joke. Humor is dark. Humor is that we're all going to die. -- B.g. Harlen
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts. -- E.b. White
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure. -- Thornton Wilder
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. -- Allen Klein
Humor comes from self-confidence. -- Rita Mae Brown
Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. -- Ogden Nash
Humour is often linked to shared experience. Like, a guy gets up and says, "Have you noticed public restrooms have really inefficient hand-dryers?" Oh my God, yes I have, hahaha, really
good point, they should ... fix that. It's good to know that somebody finally gets me! -- Bo Burnham
Humor is the pensiveness of wit. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations. -- Ron Dentinger
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. -- William Arthur Ward
Surviving dangerous times require a sense of humor. -- Robert Ferrigno
Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule. -- Saul Alinsky
