Humor Quote by Horace Walpole

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he…

— Horace Walpole

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

— Francis Bacon

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from…

— Oscar Wilde

“If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently.”

— Stanisław Lem

“Why, without a sense of humour, you are blind to so much in the world. To human nature. To the absurdity of so much…

— Steven Erikson

“The problem, he thought, was that so much humour involved misfortune of one sort or another, and now that same human misfortune was out…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so…

— Joseph Heller

“What is more important... Better yet, essential to man's well-being than his sense of imagination and free-will.”

— Poet Diction

“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to…

— Charles Dickens

“the imagination could provide a more-than-adequate substitute for the vulgar reality of actual experience’.”

— Alain de Botton

“He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with…

— Stanisław Lem