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Humor

«Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.»
Author: Agnes Repplier (Essayist, Writer) | About: Humor, Irony | Keywords: friendly, insight, ironies, irony
«Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.»
Author: Arland Ussher | About: Humor | Keywords: despair, humor, Refusing, seriously
«Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?»
Author: Dick Clark | About: Humor | Keywords: father in law, in-law, modicum
«Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.»
Author: Lana Turner (Actress) | About: Humor | Keywords: balm, reserved
«Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood»
«Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.»
«Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations.»
«Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.»
«Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.»
«Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.»
Author: Steve Allen (Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer) | About: Humor | Keywords: get over, lubricant, spots

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