 |
|
|
|
Quotes about humor
|
|
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness. (Castellaneta Dan)
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. (Castellaneta Dan)
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice. (Castellaneta Dan)
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. (Castellaneta Dan)
| |
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. (Castellaneta Dan)
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke. (Castellaneta Dan)
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy. (Castellaneta Dan)
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. (Castellaneta Dan)
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune. (Castellaneta Dan)
Fortune and humor govern the world. (Castellaneta Dan)
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. (Castellaneta Dan)
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused. (Castellaneta Dan)
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor. (Castellaneta Dan)
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. (Castellaneta Dan)
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. (Castellaneta Dan)
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. (Castellaneta Dan)
Even the gods love jokes. (Castellaneta Dan)
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke. (Castellaneta Dan)
One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool. (Castellaneta Dan)
A poor joke must invent its own laughter. (Castellaneta Dan)
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh (Castellaneta Dan)
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. (Castellaneta Dan)
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. (Castellaneta Dan)
Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers (Castellaneta Dan)
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else. (Castellaneta Dan)
|
humor | [2] | [3]
|
|
