Famous Quotes

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

Francis Bacon 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 Francis Bacon

• "Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

• "I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."

• "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

• "Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

• "A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."