(45 quotes found)
“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
“Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind."”
Donald Rumsfeld
“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.”
Mark Twain
“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.
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.”
Edward Albee
