There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.
Humor Quotes
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Humor opposes directly those emotions which have been specifically recorded as being associated with precipitation of heart attack. These emotions are fear and rage. Humor acts to relieve fear. Rage is impossible when mirth prevails.
A humorist is a man who feels bad but feels good about it.
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Humor is contagious. Laughter is infectious. Both are good for your health.
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
The people who fear humor – and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.
He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
