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We recently celebrated the publishing of our first book, and to celebrate we wanted to share some of our favorite humor quotations. If you’re interested in more quotes on humor, check out the book, 50 Quotations on Humor
10 Great Quotes on Humor
1. “Humor is mankind’s Greatest Blessing.” – Mark Twain
2. “A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.” – Mignon McLaughlin
3. “Humor is just common sense, dancing.” – William James
4. “Like a warm summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” – Langston Hughes
5. “Humor is not being funny. It is the coin of exchange between human beings that makes it possible to get through the day.” – Michael Shurtleff
6. “Humor is the sunshine of the mind.” – Edward G Bulwer-Lytton
7. “Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.” – Thomas Jefferson
8. “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble in the road.” – Henry Ward Beecher
9. “Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.” – Ludwig Wittenstein
10. “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
If you liked these quotations, be sure to check out our book, 50 Quotations on Humor
“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.” - Christopher Morley
“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.” - W. Somerset Maugham
What’s more fun than fun facts? Having a little fun with them. Started from this thread on reddit.
- If you took all the nerves out of a human body and laid them end-to-end, it’d be really gross.
- If you stacked up all the people in china end to end, you would probably be late for work.
- If you play Justin Beiber’s CD backwards, that means you owned a Justin Beiber CD.
- If all the species of beetles on earth were to disappear tomorrow, people would freak out.
- An adult Blue Whale, if laid longways on a basketball court, would result in the game being cancelled.
Some additional ones from Hugh Moore:
- If the Nile River was stretched across the United States, it would cause a lot of places to become wet.
- If you have three quarters, four dimes and four cents, you would have $1.19.
- If all Americans used one third less ice in their drinks, they would be one-third less cold.
- If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, there would be mass hysteria.
- If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Giza, you would be destroying one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Another great humorous warning label. We’re not telling you what to do, just merely suggesting it.
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