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Quotes About Humor

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?
~ Gene Wilder
Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.
~ James Wolcott
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
~ Stephen Hawking
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
~ George Santayana
Humor is the mask of wisdom.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it
~ Judi Dench
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
~ Eric Idle
Many a truth is told in jest.
~ Jonathan Swift
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.
~ Jason Aldean
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.
~ Neil Gaiman
The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.
~ Horace
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
~ Robert Orben
Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.
~ Mark Twain
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.
~ Horace
An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
~ Evan Esar
I have no wisdom to share on dating.
~ Rachel Dratch
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
~ Tom Robbins