In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
Oliver Goldsmith
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your step as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle
There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me to-day will have somebody to laugh at him to-morrow.
Seneca
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Joseph Addison
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Fadiman
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
E. James Rohn
Golf is twenty percent mechanics and technique. The other eighty percent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness, and conversation
Grantland Rice
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber
Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
William Shakespeare
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty
Brooks Atkinson
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn