Famous Quotes

"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself."

Clifton Paul Fadiman 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 Clifton Paul Fadiman

• "One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention."

• "For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."

• "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."