Famous Quotes

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

Horace Walpole 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 Horace Walpole

• "Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."

• "I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

• "Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."

• "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

• "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."