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Quotes about humor
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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type. (Castellaneta Dan)
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind. (Castellaneta Dan)
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor. (Castellaneta Dan)
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts. (Castellaneta Dan)
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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you. (Castellaneta Dan)
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. (Castellaneta Dan)
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. (Castellaneta Dan)
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. (Castellaneta Dan)
What some people invent the rest enlarge. (Castellaneta Dan)
By blood a king, in heart a clown. (Castellaneta Dan)
As a person is so must you humor them. (Castellaneta Dan)
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. (Castellaneta Dan)
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. (Castellaneta Dan)
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. (Castellaneta Dan)
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you. (Castellaneta Dan)
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. (Castellaneta Dan)
The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. (Castellaneta Dan)
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. (Castellaneta Dan)
Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole. (Castellaneta Dan)
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again. (Castellaneta Dan)
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor. (Castellaneta Dan)
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side. (Castellaneta Dan)
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her. (Castellaneta Dan)
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. (Castellaneta Dan)
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. (Castellaneta Dan)
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