Famous Quotes

"Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison."

Lord Chesterfield 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 Lord Chesterfield

• "The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."

• "In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool."

• "Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow."

• "Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."

• "I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."