Foibles Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

— Michel de Montaigne

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us…

— Dennis Miller

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

— Joan Rivers

Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.

— Anonymous

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people…

— Abe Burrows

We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from…

— Rick Warren

Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your…

— Hiam Abbass

We’ve got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken seriously but, at the…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because…

— James Thurber

“Human beings are unable to be about the serious business of living and building societies if they feel compelled to always clown or entertain…

— Na'im Akbar

Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn…

— Joan D. Chittister