Afterthought Quote by Oscar W. Firkins

Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

— Oscar W. Firkins

Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in…

— Richard L. Evans

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are…

— Christopher Morley

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem…

— Rollo May

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

— Max Eastman

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

— Stephen Leacock

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

— Sigmund Freud

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

— Peggy Noonan

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

— Romain Gary

“Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live…

— Lynda Williams