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- Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
- Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
- Tom Masson
- The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
- Robertson Davies
- Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
- Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
- Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
- Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005
- A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
- Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
- Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), Chance Acquaintances, 1952
- Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, July 12, 1711
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