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Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive Jones	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor. – Shaftesbury	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. – Virginia Woolf	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. – Agnes Repplier	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. – E.B. White	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? – Dick Clark	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else. – William Rotsler	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. – Margo Kaufman	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. – James Thurber	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing. – Clive James	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor. – American Greetings Card	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is. – Ivern Ball	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it. – Bill Cosby	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Humor is a rubber sword--it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. – Mary Hirsch	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor. – The Talmud	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield. – Unknown, epitaph for a loved one	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. Unfortunately most of us are completely unaware of this fact and we do not monitor our thoughts with the care needed so that we can create in our lives the results we say we want. Since the great majority of people do not feel worthy and deserving of abundant good fortune, radiant good health and total success in all areas of their lives that overriding thought pattern controls the results people get. The first order of business of anyone who wants to enjoy success in all areas of hisher life is to take charge of the internal dialogue they have and only think, say and behavior in a manner consistent with the results they truly desire. – Sidney Madwed	added by anonymous 13 years ago
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. – Thomas Carlyle	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable. – Helitzer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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