Quotes and Sayings About Humor
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You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
-- Abe Burrows -
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...
-- Agnes Repplier -
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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 such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
-- Agnes Varda -
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
-- Agnes Varda -
Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
-- Alan Moore -
There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.
-- Alan Thicke -
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
-- Alan Watts -
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
-- Alan Watts -
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
-- Alan Watts -
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
-- Albert Camus -
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
-- Alfred Adler -
How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.
-- Alice James -
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
-- Allen Klein -
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 -
Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
-- Allen Klein -
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
-- Allen Klein -
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
-- Allen Klein
