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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Addison, Joseph | Humor

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset | Humor

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Amory, Cleveland | Humor

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Addison, Joseph | Humor

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

Carlyle, Thomas | Humor

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Chesterfield, Lord | Humor

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar | Humor

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that makes it.

Johnson, Samuel | Humor

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

Lance Bass | Humor

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

Allen Klein | Humor

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

Liza Minnelli | Humor

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

Daniel H. Wilson | Humor

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

Mel Karmazin | Humor

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

Allen Klein | Humor

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.

Marlon Wayans | Humor

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

Steve Irwin | Humor

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

Kesha | Humor

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

Terry Bradshaw | Humor

You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

Don Rickles | Humor

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

John Krasinski | Humor

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

Bill Cosby | Humor

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

Janet Evanovich | Humor

You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.

Harvey Pekar | Humor

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham | Humor

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

J. G. Ballard | Humor

Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

Paul Feig | Humor

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

George Jean Nathan | Humor

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

Emily Blunt | Humor

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

Carrie Brownstein | Humor

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

Calvin Trillin | Humor

With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.

Patrick Wilson | Humor

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope | Humor

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Frank Muir | Humor

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

Ambrose Bierce | Humor

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Randy Forbes | Humor

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

Dweezil Zappa | Humor

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Allen Klein | Humor

Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.

Richard Roeper | Humor

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

Max Frisch | Humor

When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.

Erin Morgenstern | Humor

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

Allen Klein | Humor

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Allen Klein | Humor

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Allen Klein | Humor

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

David Sedaris | Humor

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Erma Bombeck | Humor

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Francois Truffaut | Humor

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

Thomas W. Higginson | Humor

When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.

Dylan O'Brien | Humor

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

Paul Feig | Humor

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

E. B. White | Humor

What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

Calvin Klein | Humor

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

Bernard Williams | Humor

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

Lisa Guerrero | Humor

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

Jonathan Winters | Humor

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

Garry Trudeau | Humor

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 | Humor

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

Peter Steele | Humor

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Bobby Clarke | Humor

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Shawn Wayans | Humor

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

Connie Nielsen | Humor

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

Janet Evanovich | Humor

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Konrad Lorenz | Humor

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 | Humor

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

Bil Keane | Humor

We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.

Tommy Hilfiger | Humor

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

William Glasser | Humor

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 | Humor

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette | Humor

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.

Roger Moore | Humor

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

Allen Klein | Humor

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 | Humor

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

Mike Mills | Humor

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

Melinda Clarke | Humor

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Allen Klein | Humor

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby | Humor

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.

Martin Sheen | Humor

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

Doris Kearns Goodwin | Humor

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

John Callahan | Humor

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

Lin Yutang | Humor

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

Roy Blount, Jr. | Humor

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Flip Wilson | Humor

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

Mike Judge | Humor

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

Connie Britton | Humor

There's always a source for humor.

Calvin Trillin | Humor

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

Tom Berenger | Humor

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

Naomi Watts | Humor

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

Robert Benchley | Humor

There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.

Harvey Weinstein | Humor

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

Thomas W. Higginson | Humor

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Will Durst | Humor

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

Bill Cosby | Humor

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 | Humor

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Erma Bombeck | Humor

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Sinclair Lewis | Humor

There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.

Marlon Wayans | Humor

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

Alan Thicke | Humor

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 | Humor

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system it could be a lot of different things.

Jensen Ackles | Humor

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

Rita Rudner | Humor

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

David Duchovny | Humor

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

Andre Rieu | Humor