Random Quotes
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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.Francis Quarles
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.Thomas Carlyle
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.Helitzer
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.W. C. Fields
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.Helen Luke
He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze.Dave Preston
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.Shaftesbury
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.Author Unknown