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Humor

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say its a sense of humor. If youve got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive. – Phil Keoghan

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldnt normally try. – Melinda Clarke

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. Im smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too. – Jim Goad

Maybe theres a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people. – Robert Altman

Certainly, anyone whom Ive witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it. – Christopher Heyerdahl

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. Its how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy. – Ari Graynor

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each others sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship. – Patricia Arquette

Democratic politicians have disliked things Ive written, Republican politicians… if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck. – Adam Clymer

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe its because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly dont know. – Emmett Kelly

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When youre different in a society, youre funny. – Will Eisner

Humor results when society says you cant scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public. – Tom Walsh

One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool. – Chinese Proverb

A poor joke must invent its own laughter. – Proverb

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because there were giants standing on my shoulders. – Harold Abelson

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty. – Aristotle

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road. – Henry Ward Beecher

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. – Ambrose Bierce

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. Its unbridled, its unplanned, its full of suprises. – Erma Bombeck

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. – Napoleon Bonaparte