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HUMOR: A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. (Unknown Source)

HUMOR: Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. (Unknown Source)

HUMOR: Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life. (Alan Simpson, U.S. politician, born 1931)

HUMOR: Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. (James Thurber, U.S. cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, 1894-1961)

HUMOR: A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road. (Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

HUMOR: Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

HUMOR: Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. (Virginia Wolff, English modernist writer, 1882-1941)

HUMOR: The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. (Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician and philosopher, 1861-1947)

HUMOR: Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. (Peter Ustinov, British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter, and diploma, 1921-2004)

HUMOR: He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh. (The Koran)

HUMOR: Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. (Victor Borge, Danish comedian and pianist, 1909-2000)

HUMOR: Wit is far more often a shield than a lance. (Unknown source)

HUMOR: He who laughs, lasts. (Unknown source)

HUMOR: I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive. (Anne Wilson Schaef, U.S. author, speaker, and consultant)