A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny. (Joseph Francis)
Humor Quotes
The greatest humor is born in various forms of adversity. Thus the bleakest, most self-deprecating humor has been provided by the people described by Arthur Koestler as ‘the nerve ends of mankind’. Over millennia and certainly within the century of the Holocaust, a completely disproportionate number of jokes, and of comedians to tell them have […]
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
But, through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him make the Law he flouts, Till, dazed by many doubts, he wakes The drumming guns that – […]
There is a close relationship between the “ha-ha” of humor and the “aha!” of discovery.
Humor reminds us of our fragility, our earthiness, our dustiness, our propensity to mess things up even when we have the best of intentions, our powerlessness apart from God.
Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger.
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.
