1. Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
2. 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
3. I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does! - Debbie Gibson
4. 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
5. A joke's a very serious thing. - Charles Churchill
6. If it gets laughs, it's funny. - Rachel Dratch
7. Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens. - David Hyde Pierce
8. Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. - Grenville Kleiser
9. I think God has a tremendous sense of humor. - Rainn Wilson
10. Puns are a form of humor with words. - Guillermo Cabrera Infante
11. Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. - Irvin S. Cobb
12. Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely
13. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. - Maya Angelou
14. I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid. - Tyler, The Creator
15. You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around. - Tom Brady
16. I think 'Star Trek' has a really beautiful legacy of humor, along with the more philosophical and action parts of 'Star Trek.' And so I felt pretty honored to get to keep that legacy going. - Mary Wiseman
17. I have been a big fan of the 'Fast and the Furious' franchise. The films are fast-paced, fun and keep the audience involved. There is a great mix of humor and action, something I really appreciate. - Tony Jaa
18. Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. - Mark Twain
19. I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things. - Steven Wright
20. You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor. - Steven Wright
21. I think I have always had a little humor. - Marilyn Monroe
22. The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
23. Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far. - Barack Obama
24. In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. - Thomas Jefferson
25. I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together. - Steve Jobs
26. There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. - H. L. Mencken
27. Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor. - Stephen Hawking
28. Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. - Harry S Truman
29. Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness. - Tom Wolfe
30. The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that. - Jordan Peterson
31. It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. - D. H. Lawrence
32. I am often the brunt of my own humor. - Charles R. Swindoll
33. I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. - Hunter S. Thompson
34. Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. - Tom Robbins
35. Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. - Sam Walton
36. In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh. - Robert Orben
37. I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff. - Robert Orben
38. Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years. - Robert Orben
39. President Ford used humor a great deal. - Robert Orben
40. The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth. - Charles Bukowski
41. My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.' - Kevin Hart
42. Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing. - Carol Burnett
43. My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too. - Carol Burnett
44. Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. - Adam Smith
45. Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. - Thomas Carlyle
46. True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. - Thomas Carlyle
47. In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor. - Chuck Palahniuk
48. Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. - William Makepeace Thackeray
49. You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other. - Steve Irwin
50. Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. - Eminem
51. One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter's assessment of Elvis Presley's appeal - 'energy, rebelliousness and good humor' - is remarkably close to the mark. - Molly Ivins
52. There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. - Miguel de Cervantes
53. I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things. - Ellen DeGeneres
54. Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere. - P. J. O'Rourke
55. I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics. - P. J. O'Rourke
56. It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. - Freeman Dyson
57. We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. - Anne Lamott
58. I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus. - Anne Lamott
59. Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. - Anne Lamott
60. Cynicism is humor in ill health. - H. G. Wells
61. Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it. - Jerry Seinfeld
62. They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy. - Bill Burr
63. My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious. - Bill Burr
64. OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness. - Jennifer Aniston
65. And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit. - Bobby Knight
66. I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hardworking, and had great senses of humor. - Patti Smith
67. A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess. - Ron White
68. The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me. - Marilyn Manson
69. Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him. - Anthony Bourdain
70. Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore. - Garrison Keillor
71. Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. - Jonathan Swift
72. Humor is to get us over terrible things. - Ricky Gervais
73. And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor. - Paul McCartney
74. It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation. - Scott Adams
75. To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!' - Catherine O'Hara
76. I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it. - Catherine O'Hara
77. I think the best dramatic actors know how to tap into their character's humor. - Catherine O'Hara
78. When I've traveled to London and Ireland, people don't seem to take themselves so seriously, and it's not just having a sense of humor about what's around you but having a sense of humor about yourself, and that's the healthiest sense of humor. - Catherine O'Hara
79. 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. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
80. My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you. - Michael Caine
81. Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom. - Marcel Duchamp
82. If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor. - Richard Branson
83. A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage. - Chris Rock
84. My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it's kind of hilarious. - John Mulaney
85. I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor. - Betty White
86. Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny. - Betty White
87. It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver. - Betty White
88. The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. - James Thurber
89. No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
90. People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
91. I think God has got a sense of humor. I really do. - Dabo Swinney
92. We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy. - Jeff Foxworthy
93. Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that. - Don Rickles
94. Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor. - Don Rickles
95. Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God. - Don Rickles
96. A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. - Samuel Butler
97. Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.' - Helen Mirren
98. I really believe if you give people a product that couples entertainment with a little bit of education, a soft glove and sense of humor - especially about a subject people have begun to feel very frustrated about, which is the legal system - then you have a formula for success. - Judy Sheindlin
99. I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place. - Twyla Tharp
100. I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together. - Judy Garland
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