Famous Quotes

"Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little."

Mason Cooley 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 Mason Cooley

• "The wisdom of age: don't stop walking."

• "Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends."

• "Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera."

• "Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth."

• "The lonely become either thoughtful or empty."