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" Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. "

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" It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. "

" Humor is the most engaging cowardice. "

" Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor. "

Stephen Hawking

" The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. "

" My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics. "

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" In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart. "

" I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow. "

" I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. "

" There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. "

" Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far. "

" The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. "

" When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that. "

" When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive. "

" You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor. "

" Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. "

" Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. "

" Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. "

" The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood. "

" I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. "

Hunter S. Thompson