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| 'Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!' | | Lewis Carroll | |
| A great step towards independence is good humored stomach | | Seneca | |
| A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. | | Samuel Butler | |
| Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. | | Robin Williams | |
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| Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. | | E. B. White | |
| Apu I need a keg and a six pack to hold me until I tap the keg. | | Homer Simpson | |
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| Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people | | Robert Benchley | |
| Even the gods love jokes | | Plato | |
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| Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| Hark to the whimper of the seagull. / He weeps because he's not an ea-gull. / Suppose you were, you silly seagull. / Could you explain it to your she-gull? | | Ogden Nash | |
| Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. | | James Thurber | |
| Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. | | James Thurber | |
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| 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 | |
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| Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. | | John Kenneth Galbraith | |