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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
French novelist (1873 - 1954)

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley
US actor, author, & humorist (1889 - 1945)

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
US general & Republican politician (1890 - 1969)

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith
US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 - )

Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Clive Jones

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945)

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Clive James

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

William Rotsler

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

Clive James

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Makepeace Thackery

Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.

Ivern Ball

If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby
US comedian & television actor (1937 - )

Love is my Sword,
Goodness my Armor,
And Humor my Shield.

Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
Quotations by unknown authors

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881)

Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.

Helitzer

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Shaftesbury

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Author Unknown

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