“Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.”
— Bill Forsyth
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“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
— Thomas Carlyle
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“The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.”
— Robin Roberts
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“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”
— Max Eastman
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“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.”
— William Arthur Ward
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“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”
— Thomas Carlyle
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“Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.”
— James Thurber
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“The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.”
— Dan Castellaneta
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“Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.”
— Allen Klein
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“The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.”
— Karen Hughes
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