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" Total absence of humor renders life impossible. "

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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" I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening. "

Melissa Etheridge

" Humor is an antidote to all ills. "

" I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me. "

" Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. "

Simon Wiesenthal

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

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" It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver. "

" 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 realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive. "

Anne Wilson Schaef

" There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. "

" January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. "

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

" Good late-night humor can work at any time of the day. "

" Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. "

" Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it. "

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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

" So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name "the Joker" immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards, and I probably yelled literally, 'Eureka!' because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time. "

" What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! "

Joseph Pulitzer

" A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. "

William Arthur Ward

" 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. "

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

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