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Humor
«It is easier to restrain wild donkeys (Democrats) than to raise a dead elephant (Republicans)»
Author: Arthur Hoff
| About:
Humor
| Keywords:
Democrats, donkeys, elephant, raise, Republicans, restrain, wild
«It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.»
«It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.»
Author: Max Eastman
(Author, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Humor,
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
joke, proves, sense of humor, take a joke
«I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think you can't ever get enough of and, if it's done well, it's great. When it's bad, it's horrible.»
«It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Humor,
Reason
| Keywords:
involved, perceptions, philosophers, significant, sort out, surprised
«I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.»
Author: Frank A. Clark
| About:
Humor,
Problems,
Sense of humor,
Solution
| Keywords:
solving, The Next Best
«Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
Food,
Humor
| Keywords:
aftertaste, bonus, bonuses, chemical, chemicals, Dog Eat Dog, hot, hot dog, hot dogs
«It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Humor,
Seriousness
| Keywords:
are, curious, fact, is a, never, people, peopled, seriously, take, taken over, taking over, that, themselves, they, trivial, when