Famous Quotes

"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."

Lionel Trilling 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 Lionel Trilling

• "Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

• "We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."

• "We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."

• "There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."

• "Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."