Quoted in The Grove:
Question: What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Walter Cronkite: I’m strongly urged by advisers not to say “moral laxity,” so let’s say “sense of humor.”
Humor results when society says you can’t scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.
~Tom Walsh
The funniest things are the forbidden.
~Mark Twain
EndQuote:
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
~Francis Bacon
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Harvested from: AZQuotes.com, QuoteGarden.com
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Exercise Prompt for 04/12: isolate
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Posted from the Grove*
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
~Peter De Vries
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
~James Thurber
Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
~Dorothy Parker
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Video: It’s Funnier With a British Accent
Fawlty Towers:
Rat Under the Table (3:06)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdKSVCveIfA&list
-or-
She Go Crazy (3:22)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWpASN4dQHg
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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
~Max Eastman
Not being funny doesn’t make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.
~David Rakoff
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A Bit of Fry & Laurie:
Your Name? (3:29)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LopIroSjsU
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Pre-coital Agreement (4:43)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxFU_fIUawM
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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
~Oscar Wilde
Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.
~Mrs Patrick Campbell
After God created the world,
He made man and woman.
Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing,
He invented humor.
~Bill Kelly
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Music: Tears-of-joy Knot
~Unknown: See The Funny Little Clown (1:96-short version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s7Dm1bvo9Y
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~Reba McEntire: Cathy’s Clown (3:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYVKQW-RORs
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Don’t wish me happiness – I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
~Irvin S Cobb
Humor is… despair refusing to take itself seriously.
~Arland Ussher
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
~Max Eastman
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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.
~Mark Twain
Humor is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
~Mary Hirsch
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
~Sid Caesar
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
~William Arthur Ward
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs — jolted by every pebble in the road.
~Henry Ward Beecher
You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
~Maurice Chevalier
If money makes the world go round, it’s humor that keeps it from spinning out of control.
~Craig Kimberley
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@Writers Platform
Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.
~Gore Vidal
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Glass Table:
Self-Incarcerated
Stir-crazy-I-am. Stir-crazy-I-am. I am Stir-crazy-I-am.
This stay at home plan. This stay at home plan.
I do not like this stay at home plan.
Do you like this stay at home plan?
I do not like it stir crazy I am.
I do not like this stay at home plan.
Would you like to stay in your house?
Would like to surf the net with your mouse?
I do not like to stay in my house.
I do not like to surf with my mouse.
I do not like not go here or there.
I do not like not to go anywhere.
I do not like this stay at home plan.
I do not like it Stir-crazy-I-am.
~Rob Arkes
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Exercise Prompt: humor
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~BarTalk:
Words At Work
Words breathe and take up space
Make contracts, puns and create
Define a science for the human race
To the stars and back again
Words go wrong and stay the night
Much like our bad boy teenage rites
Or enable friends who think they might
Pull the plug and make light of life
Words may be weapons meant to harm
Outline a season for warlike storms
Underline real reasons for alarm
Undermine the reach of healing charm
Ill-bred words that fail to please
Can amend themselves for making peace
Promise love and make things right
Invite droll humor and avoid the fight
Words in poems like sounds at play
That work to heal and not betray
Like knowing lyrics that people songs
Inhabit hearts where they belong
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Humor Me
Think me ugly, think me fat and dense
But never handsome, t’would makes no sense
Names are cheap, don’t sit the fence
Please humor me at my expense
Call me moron, dupe and stupid
Never won at Eros, not even Cupid
T’would be no evil to call me devil
Who failed to win love’s loftier level
Born a fool is my affliction
Who wanders lost without direction
Short on plot but long on fiction
Dedicate this ode to St. Malediction
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Five Finger Pluck
Five piece jug band sings her song
Their red haired singer plays along
Humor rules their little game
Contrapuntal fun their only aim
When their chorus ends the same
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5-7-5 x 2
stand tall, laugh and love
I stood tall to laugh at love
watched it all come true
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brown grow the hillsides
nature’s green sense of humor
laughs at the grey rain
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An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.
~William Feather
Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.
~Peter Tork
Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
~Jack Germond
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
~Edgar Rice Burroughs
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*From Wordgrove: A Page of Fun & Telling Quotes
https://wordgrove.com/funquotes.html
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