Famous Quotes

"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 on Humor

More quotes about Humor

• "A joke is a very serious thing."

  Winston Churchill on Humor

• "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

  Mark Twain on 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."

  William James on Humor

• "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Humor

• "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 on Humor

More quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

• "By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."

• "In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."

• "Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

• "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

• "There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."