Famous Quotes

"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."

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."