Logo
Quote by Horace Walpole
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isnt. A

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isnt. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. – Horace Walpole

Other quotes by Horace Walpole

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense. – Horace Walpole

Category:
respect
Author
Horace Walpole
Read Quote

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. – Horace Walpole

Category:
Life
Author
Horace Walpole
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Humor
category

Gags die, humor doesnt. – Jack Benny

Category:
Humor

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. – Peter De Vries

Category:
Humor

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect. – Loretta Swit

Category:
Humor

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part youll probably get the humor in the audio part. – Eric San

Category:
Humor

Random Quotes

I enjoy life when things are happening. I dont care if its good things or bad things. That means youre alive. – Joan Rivers

Category:
good

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. – Eugenio Montale

Category:
Poetry

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. – Paul D. Boyer

Category:
car

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. – Havelock Ellis

Category:
Miscellaneous