A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
MAIRA KALMAN
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was ...
OSCAR WILDE
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is the Almighty, the Possessor of all power in He...
ARTHUR W. PINK
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
MUHAMMAD ALI
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated ...
BILLY GRAHAM
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him ...
FRANCIS BACON, SR.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things d...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
WILLIAM JAMES
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
MAX EASTMAN
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
FRANK A. CLARK A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign th...
HUGH SIDEY
Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you s...
DONALD RUMSFELD Beer Man is a classic, ... He's got such a great sense of humor.
DAVE STOCKTON
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
LARRY GELBART
I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
BEN STILLER
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is qu...
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Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for ...
GRAHAM CHAPMAN
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
CLIVE JAMES Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
LYN KAROL
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
ERMA BOMBECK Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I su...
RON DENTINGER
Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate th...
ANN LANDERS
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
JEAN ROSTAND The quality of sobriety is measured by both your sense of humor and your unwillingness to laugh at t...
TERENCE T. GORSKI
I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
MAYA ANGELOU
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
G.K. CHESTERTON
If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS
A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that pe...
ANDREW SOLOMON I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
FLORENZ ZIEGFELD
Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.
GLORIA ALLRED The quality of thoughts depends not on mind or heart, but on the humane words deeply embedded with c...
ANUJ SOMANY
Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor a...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT
However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way o...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
CLIVE JAMES
I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!
ARTHUR MILLER Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
MARGARET CHO Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kin...
MAIRA KALMAN Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
CHAD SMITH
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him f...
FRANCIS BACON Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.
ARLAND USSHER God has a most wicked sense of humor.
MAUREEN O'HARA I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH
We've been real sensitive to that since we saw the stand Kamehameha Schools took. But even though th...
BETTY WHITE
All creatures must learn to coexist. Thats why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their ...
BETTY WHITE Most preachers say the nature of God is unknowable, but I'm certain of one thing at least. God almig...
ROBERT FERRIGNO
Fate has a cruel sense of humor, don't you think?
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Surviving dangerous times require a sense of humor.
ROBERT FERRIGNO
The Reverend William Trent, whose mind was of a serious order, had several times warned his elder si...
GEORGETTE HEYER
A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She can...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
MARK VAN DOREN
It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man
OSCAR WILDE The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and lau...
BERT WILLIAMS
I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler p...
VERA FARMIGA When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.
DYLAN O'BRIEN As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.
DAVID ALAN GRIER My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.
DUNCAN JONES I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.
DUNCAN JONES What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
CALVIN KLEIN The show is geared towards people with a sense of humor.
DANNY LIBERTO Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him f...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
EDWARD ALBEE
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
HARRY S TRUMAN The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and...
BERT WILLIAMS
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
WILLIAM E. ROTHSCHILD
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
WILLIAM ROTSLER
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON
A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man,...
MARTIN BUBER He is just a gem of a guy. A fabulous sense of humor.
BRUCE HENSLEY great wit, a great sense of humor.
MICHAEL PALIN Fate has a twisted sense of humor.
AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES
They've kind of surrounded him by some old friends of the audience, ... so that the audience will fe...
BETTY WHITE
I feel like it's what God wants me to do. I know how it feels and how devastated people can be.
BETTY WHITE Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them.
REBEKAH NATHAN As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.
JANE GREEN
I'm a sucker for sweetness. Intelligence, creativity and a sense of humor mean little to me if a per...
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JACKY FLEMING Perhaps the ocean doesn't have a sense of humor?
YULIYA GALLIMORE
You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
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You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.
KESHA
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
MAHATMA GANDHI
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
RALPH FIENNES
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sigh...
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, i...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talen...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great tal...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can se...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental cap...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is a...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have sim...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The ingenious person will above all strive for freedom from pain and annoyance, for tranquility and ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the p...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overloa...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talen...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER