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Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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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 
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
You can turn painful situations around through laughter.
If you can find humor in anything, even poverty,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A willingness to laugh at itself is what distinguishes
a compassionate religion from a cult.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips
is a sign that the person down deep
has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey
There is hope for the future because God has a sense
of humor and we are funny to God.
- Bill Cosby
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
- Agnes Repplier
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
- Edward de Bono
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
- Erma Bombeck
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
- Bern Williams
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous,
but no sense of humor.
- Edward Albee
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor:
to change the character of our thought.
- Lin Yutang
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life,
choose a sense of humor.
- Jennifer Jones
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
- James Thurber
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
- Langston Hughes
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is
so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
- Thomas W. Higginson
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people
will not go to analyze humor.
It seems to worry them.
- Robert Benchley
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog.
Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
- E. B. White
A laugh is a surprise.
And all humor is physical.
I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
- Chevy Chase
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
- Leo Rosten
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
- Mel Brooks
The secret to humor is surprise.
- Aristotle
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is
finding some humor in it.
- Frank Howard Clark
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.
- James Thurber
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth,
the air and you.
- Langston Hughes
Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
- Allen Klein
Puns are a form of humor with words.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not;
a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- Francis Bacon
One doesn't have a sense of humor.
It has you.
- Larry Gelbart
Gags die, humor doesn't.
- Jack Benny
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just
about anything a human does.
- Bill Nye
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
- George Herbert
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed
off their earthly pedestals.
- Agnes Repplier
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 is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
- Max Eastman
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
- Jacob August Riis
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
- Doug Larson
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.
- Jessamyn West
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
- Fred Allen
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the
very instant we are laughing.
- Allen Klein
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
- Irvin S. Cobb
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks;
they are the summits of ranges.
- Thomas W. Higginson
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.
- Christopher Morley
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Peter Ustinov
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
- Emo Philips
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings
his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
- Peter De Vries
A humorist is a person who feels bad,
but who feels good about it.
- Don Herold
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
- Steven Wright
Humor is reason gone mad.
- Groucho Marx
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
- W. C. Fields
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils
his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
- Ambrose Bierce
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
Comedy has to be based on truth.
You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
- Sid Caesar
When a thought takes one's breath away,
a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
- Thomas W. Higginson
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself -
with a smile.
- J. B. Priestley
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
- Groucho Marx
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you
don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
- Flip Wilson
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth.
Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
- Dick Clark
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