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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb 
73% of people like this quote
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis
70% of people like this quote
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
69% of people like this quote
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
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Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar
63% of people like this quote
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas W. Higginson
61% of people like this quote
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
59% of people like this quote
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey
57% of people like this quote
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
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