“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor—for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.” — Jessamyn West, To See the Dream
Tag: sense of humor
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“A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.” — Clive James, The Crystal Bucket
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“There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.” — Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
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“He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no sense of humor.” — J. D. Salinger, For Esmé — with Love and Squalor
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“Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.” — Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Beerbohm Tree
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“Life is nothing without a good sense of humor.” — John Waters, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
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“No one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously. For without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.” — Robert Benchley
“No one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously. For without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.” — Robert Benchley, LIFE magazine (8 March 1929)
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“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.” — Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam