Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger.
Humor Quotes
We respect a person with a sense of humor because a sense of humor means you are in control of a situation.
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it nevertheless intends all the time to be something different and highly dignified, at the next moment it corrects and checks and tries to cover up the absurd thing it was; so that a conventional world, a world of masks, is superimposed on the […]
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectually and happily than seriousness.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
I had thought, on starting this composition, that I should define what humor means to me. However, every time I tried to, I had to go and lie down with a cold wet cloth on my head.
I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
But the deep background that lies behind and beyond what we call humor is revealed only to the few who, by instinct or by effort, have given thought to it. The world’s humor, in its best and greatest sense, is perhaps the highest product of our civilization. Its basis lies in the deeper contrasts offered […]
There are those who, in their pride and their innocence, dedicate their careers to writing humorous pieces. Poor dears, the world is stacked against them from the start, for everybody in it has the right to look at their work and say, ‘I don’t think that’s funny.’
