Cute Quotes 3

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Umberto Eco 1929-, Italian Novelist and critic

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist

There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Roman Gary

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Don Herold

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet

Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.
Constance Rourke 1885-1941, American Author

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
David Seabury American Doctor, Author