Famous Quotes

"Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly."

Jonathan Swift 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 Jonathan Swift

• "No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience."

• "Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

• "Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age."

• "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder."

• "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."