Famous Quotes

"The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies."

William Temple 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 William Temple

• "The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."

• "You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill."

• "Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy."

• "The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."

• "You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill."