HUMOR, INSULT IS POWERFUL
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
HUMOR, CONSPICUOUS IN THE ACT OF LAUGHTER
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
HUMOR, DEFENSE AGAINST ADVERSE FORTUNE
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
HUMOR, LIFE HAS A MEASURE OF SORROW
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
HUMOR, POLITENESS IS ARTIFICIAL GOOD HUMOR
