Famous Quotes

"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought."

Lin Yutang 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 Lin Yutang

• "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."

• "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

• "Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."

• "Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice."

• "Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks."