Quotes with humor

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  • Mark Twain Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Billy Collins Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Lord Nelson I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
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  • James C. Humes I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
    James C. Humes
    American author and former presidential speechwriter (1934 - )
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  • Edward Franklin Albee III I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
    Edward Franklin Albee III
    American playwright (1928 - 2016)
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Bruce Nauman I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Enid Bagnold If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Alan Thicke If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Campbell Scott If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Francis Bacon Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • George Herbert In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Candice Glover In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
    Candice Glover
    American R&B singer and actress (1989 - )
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  • Allen Klein In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Alanis Morissette In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Bea Arthur In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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