Essence Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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 lightens our spirits, comforts us through the challenge, brings people together, and helps us to remember the positive sides of life. When your…

— Susan C. Young

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

— Billy Graham

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

— Stephen Leacock

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

— Richard G. Scott

A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable.

— Moshe Waldoks

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

— Romain Gary

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out…

— Agnes Repplier

A wholesome sense of humor will be a safety valve that will enable you to apply the lighter touch to heavy problems and to…

— Hugh B. Brown

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

— Romain Gary

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 has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life.…

— Constance Rourke