Humor(42)

"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear."
Thomas W. Higginson

"Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges."
Thomas W. Higginson

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
William James

"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor."
Jennifer Jones

"Humor is reason gone mad."
Groucho Marx

"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles."
Mignon McLaughlin

"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs."
Christopher Morley

"Wit is the lowest form of humor."
Alexander Pope

"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals."
Agnes Repplier

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."
Agnes Repplier