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Quotations on Humor

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by Dwight David Eisenhower
(October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969)

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

by Charlie Chaplin
(April 16, 1889 - December 25, 1977)

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

by Sir Peter Ustinov
(April 16, 1921 - March 28, 2004)

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

by Thomas Carlyle
(December 4, 1795 - February 4, 1881)

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

by T. S. Eliot
(September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965)

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

by Christopher Morley
(May 5, 1890 - March 28, 1957)

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 a ...

by Victor Borge
(March 1, 1909 - December 23, 200)

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.

by Mark Twain
(November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910)

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

by Aristotle
(384 BC - 322 BC)

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

by Mark Twain
(November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910)

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.


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