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Humor is the
affectionate communication of insight.
-- Leo Rosten
1908-1997, Polish Born
American Political Scientist
Humor is, I
think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is
surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,
essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a
long, long time between James Thurbers
-- Leo Rosten
1908-1997, Polish Born
American Political Scientist
Anyone without
a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
-- William E. Rothschild
Humor has been
a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through
the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread
elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and
coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established
civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the
established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer
existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a
disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh
bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the
rounded completion of an American type.
-- Constance Rourke
1885-1941, American Author
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Good
humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which
requires practice.
-- David Seabury
American Doctor,
Author
Comedy
is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
-- Gilbert Seldes
It is
the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the
only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
-- Lord Shaftesbury
1671-1713, British
Statesman
The
right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory
for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
-- Richard Brinsley
Sheridan
1751-1816,
Anglo-Irish Dramatist
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