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

—Mary Hirsch

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

—Larry Gelbart

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

—James Thurber

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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

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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.

—Dick Clark

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

—Colette

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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

—Bill Nye

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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

—Aristotle

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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

—A. Whitney Brown

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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

—William Shakespeare

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It well becomes a young man to be modest.

—Titus Maccius Plautus

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

—Mark Twain

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Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

—Madam Guizot

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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

—Kanye West

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