The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

About Mary Hirsch

Mary Hirsch McLennan (born c. 1913–1976) was an American trainer of thoroughbred racehorses. In 1935 at age 22, Hirsch became the first woman to be granted a trainer's license in the United States. In 1937, she became the first woman to saddle a horse for the Kentucky Derby. In her...

More quotations tagged with “humor”

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

—Larry Gelbart

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

—James Thurber

If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not… anything.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

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