I’ll tell you what Fowler’s trouble is. It is making jokes. It is falling foul of the global conspiracy of the humorless. Jokes humanize, jokes civilize, jokes deflect wrath. Jokes give perspective, insight, clarity. Jokes give complexity. Jokes add life-giving layers of possibility. Jokes do not compromise the seriousness: jokes add to a serious intention […]
Humor Quotes
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers. But most people agree on what is funny, and most people like to be around a person with a great sense of humor, provided he also […]
Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs? – Humor is that which most efficiently recognizes that we are living in an imperfect world, with imperfect arguments and things […]
Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Gags die, humor doesn’t.
Humor tells you where the trouble is.
Humorist, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh’s heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.
There are very few good judges of humor, and they don’t agree.
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
