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Sense of humor
«A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.»
Author: Hugh Sidey
| About:
Humor,
Joy,
Laughter,
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
armor, grasp, sense of humor
«A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself»
«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
«A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
Getting Things Done, sense of humor
«A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable»
Author: Billy Graham
| About:
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
keen, keenest, outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, overlook, sense of humor, tolerated, unbearable, unbecoming, unconventional, unexpected, unpleasant
«Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Imagination,
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, console, consoles, consoling, sense of humor
«A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
delusion, patriotic, sense of humor
«Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Common sense,
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
sense of humor, speeds