Famous Quotes

"Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully."

Max Eastman 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 Max Eastman

• "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."

• "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."

• "The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."

• "It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."

• "Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."