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- Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Humor is just another defense against the universe.
- Mel Brooks (1926 - )
- Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
- Dick Clark
- Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
- Edward De Bono
- A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- 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)
- I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
- John Gunther (1901 - 1970)
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