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Quotes about humor
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. (Wiesenthal Simon)
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The secret to humor is surprise. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. (Wiesenthal Simon)
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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. (Wiesenthal Simon)
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road. (Wiesenthal Simon)
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. (Wiesenthal Simon)
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Humor is just another defense against the universe. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. (Wiesenthal Simon)
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Comedy is a tragedy plus time. (Wiesenthal Simon)
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. (Wiesenthal Simon)
In the end, everything is a gag. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law. (Wiesenthal Simon)
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. (Wiesenthal Simon)
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. (Wiesenthal Simon)
There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. (Wiesenthal Simon)
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. (Wiesenthal Simon)
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
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