HUMOR, INSULT IS POWERFUL
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
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?
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
HUMOR, DEFENSE AGAINST ADVERSE FORTUNE
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
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
