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Humor

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony. – Xun Zi

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor. – Samuel Richardson

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. – Samuel Richardson

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. – Maurice Sendak

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor. – Rod Stewart

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. – William Howard Taft

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. – Edward de Bono

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh? – Max Frisch

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns. – Bret Michaels

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. – Russell Baker

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others. – Dean Koontz

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them. – Vera Farmiga

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. – J. G. Ballard

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. – Horatio Nelson

I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor. – Betty White

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. – Freeman Dyson

I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is. – Antonio Banderas

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. – Lynda Barry

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

Mixing humor and politics is something that works. – Bryan Cranston