Gentle Quote by Thomas Merton

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

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

— Thomas Carlyle

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous.…

— Anonymous

We can find gentle humor in the most terrible circumstances and tenderness in the darkness.

— Anonymous

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

Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

— Jeremy Taylor

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

— Leo Rosten

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 the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.”

— Joseph Campbell

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

— Alice Meynell

“Throughout my life I have seen, without one exception, narrow-shouldered men performing innumerable idiotic acts, brustalising their fellows, and corrupted souls by every means.…

— Comte de Lautréamont

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