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is (or rather a sense of humor is) the same thing as common sense, but moving at a different speed.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

is a filter that offers a way of coping in the short term with almost anything... but it has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal.

I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are 'always on.' It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain. Woody Allen

is a plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

is a power not possessed by everyone. The one who has it always brings half the entertainment along with him.

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it... it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. Laurence Sterne

is a sad phenomenon when made professional. Professional humor forces this ambiguous, difficult-to-define thing called humor artificially into a necessity.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't attain it. There are terrible forms of professional humor, the humorist' humor. That can be awful. It depresses me because it is artificial. You can't always be humorous, but a professional humorist must. That is a sad phenomenon. Heinrich Böll

is a saving thing: For the minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. Mark Twain

is a twisted logic whereby, in contrast to traditional logic, whereby something is a or not a, n humor, it's both a and not a.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

is almost always anger with its make-up on.

humor is almost always anger with its make-up on. Stephen King

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