Humor is something that thrives between mans aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because you see humor is truth.
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the worlds economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises the nobility of things associated with it and the greatness of services it renders.
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.
She who ne?er answers till a husband cools Or if she rules him never shows she rules; Charms by accepting by submitting sways Yet has her humor most when she obeys.
A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in ones heart and some laughter on ones lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Except by name Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him we think that has reached this country is his sayingimported by Madame de Staël and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper criticsProvidence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that ofthe air! Richter: German humorist & prose writer.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting And there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant.
She must know all the needs of a rational being Be skilled to keep counsel to comfort to coax And above all things else be accomplished at seeing My jokes.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Good humor makes all things tolerable.
Humor is something that thrives between mans aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because you see humor is truth.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Humor is an affirmation of mans dignity a declaration of mans superiority to all that befalls him.
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything even poverty you can survive it.
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he / she is involved in tragic events.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the worlds economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises the nobility of things associated with it and the greatness of services it renders.
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.
If I had no sense of humor I would long ago have committed suicide.
One doesnt have a sense of humor. It has you.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life choose a sense of humor.
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Humor is reason gone mad.
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
After God created the world He made man and woman. Then to keep the whole thing from collapsing He invented humor.
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.
She who ne?er answers till a husband cools Or if she rules him never shows she rules; Charms by accepting by submitting sways Yet has her humor most when she obeys.
Humor distorts nothing and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
The more I live the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in ones heart and some laughter on ones lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
The secret source of humour itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.
Humor is… despair refusing to take itself seriously.
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Humor results when society says you cant scratch certain things in public but they itch in public.
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
The English gave Australia its laws the Scots its money and the Irish its humor.
Except by name Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him we think that has reached this country is his sayingimported by Madame de Staël and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper criticsProvidence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that ofthe air! Richter: German humorist & prose writer.
Wise men are not wise at all hours and will speak five times from their taste or their humor to once from their reason.
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor And humor with serious pleading.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting And there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant.
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
Satire should like a polished razor keen Would with a touch that s scarcely felt or seen.
Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
Most of the humor here is from America. It is of the feeblest Kind.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
She must know all the needs of a rational being Be skilled to keep counsel to comfort to coax And above all things else be accomplished at seeing My jokes.
A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers.
It was the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity and gravity of humor.
Jesters do often prove prophets.
Good humor is the health of the soul sadness is its poison.