Famous Quotes

"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."

Thomas Browne 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 Thomas Browne

• "Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks."

• "Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."

• "All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."

• "We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases."

• "Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living."