Quote by Leo Rosten
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. I

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. – Leo Rosten

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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. – Leo Rosten

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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. – Leo Rosten

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There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. – Victor Borge, London Times, 1984 January 3rd

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Get well cards have become so humorous that if you dont get sick youre missing half the fun. – Flip Wilson

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Wit.—Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. – Friedrich Nietzsche, “Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions” (#202, 1879), Human, Al

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

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