Famous Quotes

"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs."

Christopher Morley 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 Christopher Morley

• "A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life."

• "Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain."

• "In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."

• "All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."

• "Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."