Famous Quotes

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

Agnes Repplier on Humor

More quotes about Humor

• "A joke is a very serious thing."

  Winston Churchill on Humor

• "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

  Mark Twain on Humor

• "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 on Humor

• "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Humor

• "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

  Henry Ward Beecher on Humor

More quotes by Agnes Repplier

• "It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning."

• "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

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

• "It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more."

• "A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there."