Famous Quotes

"If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain."

William Howard Taft 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 William Howard Taft

• "Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man."

• "No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."

• "We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement."

• "Politics makes me sick."

• "I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else."