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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. -
Abraham Lincoln
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Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke. -
Garrison Keillor
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Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the ''healing-power'' gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down. -
Florence King
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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. -
Grenville Kleiser
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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. -
Jean De La Bruyere
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. -
Washington Irving
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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused. -
Shirley Maclaine
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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. -
Steve Martin
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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. -
Steve Martin
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor. -
W Somerset Maugham
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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. -
Malcolm Muggeridge
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. -
George Eliot
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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. -
Joseph Joubert
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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice. -
Samuel Johnson
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There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. -
Fredrich
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. -
Mahatma Gandhi
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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness. -
Horace
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