28.9.12

Kutipan (Quote) - Humor (1)


A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey

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

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx

Humor is reason gone mad.
Groucho Marx

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Don Herold

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White

The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
Emo Philips

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

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.
Christopher Morley

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Langston Hughes

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce

Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
Doug Larson

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Victor Borge

Gags die, humor doesn't.
Jack Benny

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
Chevy Chase

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.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
Fred Allen

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
Allen Klein

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