Humour Quotes - Page 27

• I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

  Peter Ustinov

  Travel, Wine, Italian

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• Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Rhetorical Strategies, Play, Political

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• Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Elbert Hubbard (1917). “In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage”

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• A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  God, Funny Life, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.25, Publishdrive

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• Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Majority Vote, Catholic, Determined

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• Humor is just another defense against the universe.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Laughter, Humor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Funny Love, Wise

  "The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas".

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• Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Education

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

  Christopher Morley

  Laughter, Humor, Two

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Laughter, Creativity

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

  Romain Gary

  Positive, Laughter, Work

  Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.130, New Directions Publishing

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• Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Hilarious, Health

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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  In Saturday Review 25 Aug. 1962

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