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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
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Douglas Adams(1952-, British science fiction writer) |
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| Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
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Joseph Addison(1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman) |
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| I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
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Edward Albee(1928-, American playwright, dramatist) |
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| The secret to humor is surprise.
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Aristotle(BC 384-322, Greek philosopher) |
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| Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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W. H. Auden(1907-1973, Anglo-American poet) |
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| Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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Francis Bacon(1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman) |
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Rating: 3.33
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| A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road.
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Henry Ward Beecher(1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer) |
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Rating: 3.67
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| We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
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Countess of Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner(1789-1849, Irish writer and socialite) |
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| We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821, French general, emperor) |
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| Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Edward De Bono(1933-, British writer on thinking process) |
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| 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.
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Victor Borge(1909-2000, Danish entertainer, pianist) |
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| Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Mel Brooks(1926-, American actor, director) |
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Rating: 2.67
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| A rich man's joke is always funny.
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Thomas Edward Brown |
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| All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
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Lenny Bruce(1925-1966, American comedian) |
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| The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
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Lenny Bruce(1925-1966, American comedian) |
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| Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
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Carol Burnett(1933-, American television comedian) |
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| Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette(1873-1954, French author) |
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| 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.
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| In the end, everything is a gag.
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Charlie Chaplin(1889-1977, British comic actor, filmmaker) |
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| Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
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Dick Clark(1929-, American entertainer, television personality) |
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| No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834, British poet, critic, philosopher) |
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| People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834, British poet, critic, philosopher) |
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| Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
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Charles Caleb Colton(1780-1832, British sportsman writer) |
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| A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
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Joseph Conrad(1857-1924, Polish-born British novelist) |
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| Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
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Phyllis Diller(1917-, American author, actor) |
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| Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
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Max Eastman(American commentator, writer) |
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| The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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Umberto Eco(1929-, Italian novelist and critic) |
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| Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
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Sigmund Freud(1856-1939, Austrian physician, founder of Psychoanalysis) |
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| If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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Mahatma Gandhi(1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader) |
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| Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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Roman Gary |
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| If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
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Samuel Goldwyn(1882-1974, American film producer, founder of MGM) |
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| Few great men could pass Personnel.
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Paul Goodman(1911-1972, American author, poet, critic) |
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| Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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Langston Hughes(1902-1967, American poet, short-story writer, playwright) |
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| A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
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Don Herold |
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| A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
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Horace(BC 65-8, Italian poet) |
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| You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
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Elbert Hubbard(1859-1915, American author, publisher) |
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| There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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Joseph Joubert(1754-1824, French moralist) |
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| An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.'
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Washington Irving(1783-1859, American author) |
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| I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
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Samuel Johnson(1709-1784, British author) |
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| WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
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Ellie Katz |
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| Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.
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Garrison Keillor(1942-, American humorous writer, radio performer) |
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| Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the "healing-power" gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.
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Florence E. King(1936-, American author, critic) |
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| 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.
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Grenville Kleiser(1868-1953, American author) |
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| The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
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Ronald Knox(1888-1957, British scholar, priest) |
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| One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
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Jean De La Bruyere(1645-1696, French classical writer) |
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| Fortune and humor govern the world.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld(1613-1680, French classical writer) |
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| Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
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Malcolm Muggeridge(1903-1990, British broadcaster) |
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| If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865, American President (16th)) |
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| Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
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Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865, American President (16th)) |
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| A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
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Shirley MacLaine(1934-, American actress) |
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