“If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.”
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humor
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“What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!”
“As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.”
“Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.”
“From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.”
“My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.”
“I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.”
“People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.”
“Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.”
“The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.”
“If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.”
“It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.”
“Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.”
“When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?”
“Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.”
“My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.”
“Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.”
“I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.”
“I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.”
“Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.”
“I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.”
“Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.”
“I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.”
“It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.”