Kutipan (Quote) - Humor (2)

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
Allen Klein

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank Howard Clark

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley

Puns are a form of humor with words.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
Robert Benchley

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
Bern Williams

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas W. Higginson

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Thomas W. Higginson

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Thomas W. Higginson