“ A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
“ Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes round a corner. ”
- Leigh Hunt- Copy
“ There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
“ Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. ”
- Overlung- Copy
“ At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
“ There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke. ”
- J. J. Procter- Copy
“ The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
“ Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. ”
- Frank Muir- Copy
“ Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
“ He had a great sense of humor. He always made me laugh. He was a pleasure to have in class because of that sense of humor. ”
- Ted Williams- Copy
“ A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
“ Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
“ The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
“ Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ”
- Florence King- Copy
“ I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
“ She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
“ Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
“ Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
“ I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is. ”
- Antonio Banderas- Copy
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