“What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.”
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“Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.”
“The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.”
“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.”
“There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.”
“Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.”
“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”
“The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.”
“One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.”
“When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.”
“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.”
“Puns are a form of humor with words.”
“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.”
“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.”
“There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.”
“Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.”
“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.”
“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
“A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.”
“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
“Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.”
“I think I have always had a little humor.”
“Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.”
“I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.”