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Humor

«Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain»
«Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.»
Author: Irvin S. Cobb | About: Humor | Keywords: torn
«Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | About: Humor | Keywords: remembered, tranquility
«Humor is just another defense against the universe.»
Author: Mel Brooks (Actor, Film Director, Producer, Writer) | About: Humor | Keywords: defense
«Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.»
Author: Victor Borge (Comedian, Pianist) | About: Humor | Keywords: aspirations
«Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.»
«Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of surprises.»
«Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.»
Author: Langston Hughes (Essayist, Poet, Writer) | About: Humor
«Humor is reason gone mad.»
Author: Groucho Marx (Actor, Comedian, Singer) | About: Humor | Keywords: gone, humor, humored, humors, mad
«Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Humor | Keywords: blessing, humor, mankind