(43 quotes found)
“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
“A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable”
Billy Graham
“A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.”
Hugh Sidey
“I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.”
Woody Allen
“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion”
Henry Louis Mencken
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”
Max Eastman
“It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.”
Muhammad Ali
“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself”
Jessamyn West
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is”
Francis Bacon Sr.
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