Quotations About / On: HUMOR

  • 1.
    Miller's sexual humor is the humor of the men's house, more specifically, the men's room.
    (Kate Millett (b. 1934), U.S. feminist theorist, literary critic, essayist, autobiographer, sculptor. Sexual Politics, ch. 6, Simon and Schuster (1970).)
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  • 2.
    Humor is the mask of wisdom.
    (Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). 55 Sentences on Art and Reality, no. 31 (1977).)
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  • 3.
    Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
    (Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. The Autobiography of Mark Twain, ch. 55, ed. Charles Neider, Harper & Row (1959).)
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  • 4.
    Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
    (François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 62 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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  • 5.
    Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.
    (Lita Grey Chaplin (b. 1908), U.S. actor, second wife of Charlie Chaplin. Radio interview, 1974. Quoted in Richard Lamparski, Whatever Became Of ...?, Eighth Series (1982).)
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  • 6.
    The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities—a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
    (Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), U.S. president. The Wit and Wisdom of Franklin D. Roosevelt, On America, p. 5, eds. Peter and Helen Beilenson, Peter Pauper Press (1982).)
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  • 7.
    From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
    (Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1753-1754). John Greville, in Sir Charles Grandison, vol. 1, letter 2, Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986).)
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  • 8.
    An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
    (Constance Rourke (1885-1941), U.S. author. American Humor, ch. 1 (1931).)
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  • 9.
    The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.
    (François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 46 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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  • 10.
    Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection, New York (1990).)
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