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May 2025

Wise Words on Humor

Perspective on the power of laughter and wit.


When we laugh together, we are sharing much more than a moments pleasurehumor connects us, disarms us and reinvigorates us. What makes us laugh varies from person to person and culture to culture, but humor is a universal tool for communicating and understanding one other. These memorable words from influential people around the world and throughout history highlight the value of humor in all aspects of life.


We learn best in moments of enjoyment.
RALPH C. SMEDLEY

Humor is laughing at what you havent got when you ought to have it.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
MARK TWAIN

The secret to humor is surprise. A賊梆釦啦倏啦郭楚

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. LANGSTON HUGHES

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Im not funny. What I am is brave. LUCILLE BALL

Everything is funny, as long as its happening to somebody else.
WILL ROGERS

Humor is something that thrives between mans aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. VICTOR BORGE

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
ERMA BOMBECK

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
PETER USTINOV

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