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Humor

«Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas»
«Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.»
Author: Leo Rosten (Novelist) | About: Humor | Keywords: affectionate, communication, insight
«Humor tells you where the trouble is»
Author: Louise Bernikow | About: Humor | Keywords: humor
«Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.»
Author: Max Eastman (Author, Journalist, Writer) | About: Humor | Keywords: instinct, playfully
«Humor is the sunshine of the mind»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | About: Humor
«Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.»
«Humor is tragedy plus time»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Humor | Keywords: humor, plus, pluses, tragedy
«Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.»
«Humor is the most engaging cowardice.»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Humor | Keywords: cowardice, engaging
«Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | About: Gifts, Humor

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