“Humor is reason gone mad.”
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humor
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“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.”
“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.”
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”
“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”
“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”
“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.”
“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.”
“A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.”
“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.”
“If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.”
“A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.”
“Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.”
“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.”
“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”
“Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.”
“Gags die, humor doesn't.”
“All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.”
“Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.”
“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.”
“Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.”
“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.”
“Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.”