Famous Quotes

"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile."

J. B. Priestley 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 J. B. Priestley

• "We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

• "There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going."

• "Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch."

• "The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence."

• "The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."