Famous Quotes

"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."

Peter De Vries 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 Peter De Vries

• "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."

• "Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."

• "A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after."

• "I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."

• "Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."