A sense of humor is just common sense dancing. — William James
A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge. — Dave Barry
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
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh. — Shirley Henderson
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective — Wayne Thiebaud
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable. — Billy Graham
People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail. — Bob Newhart
Humor was a good way to hide the pain. — Rick Riordan
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. — Max Eastman
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. — Hugh Sidey
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. — William James
Humor is just another defense against the universe. — Mel Brooks
I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor. — Katie Price
I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor. — Anjelica Huston
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Dried Quotes
Watch your back, but more importantly when you get out the shower, dry your back. Its a cold world out there. — DJ Khaled
The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards. — Lewis Grizzard
Sit and be still
until in the time
of no rain you hear
beneath the dry wind's
commotion in the trees
the sound of flowing
water among the rocks,
a stream unheard before,
and you are where
breathing is prayer. — Wendell Berry
Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller
Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries. — Neville Brody
Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Every time you are able to find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me. — William Shakespeare
People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it's not: it's very fluid. It's like I'm doing a painting where the paint refuses to dry. — Neville Brody
Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dry Quotes
True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ. — J. C. Ryle
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. — John Muir
I talk slicker than a pimp from Augusta who just had his linen suit dry-cleaned — Drake
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end. — Rudy Rucker
Put a good bunch of grapes under the winepress, and a delicious juice will come out. Under the winepress of the cross, our soul produces a juice that feeds and strengthens us. When we haven't got any crosses, we are dry. If we carry them with resignation, what happiness, what sweetness we feel! — John Vianney
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. — Benjamin Franklin
You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. — John Jay Chapman
My favorite name for a color is "puce." It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white. — Elizabeth Taylor
Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
In this bright future you can't forget your past
So dry your tears I say. — Bob Marley
When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Dry Up Quotes
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. — Clement Clarke Moore
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. — Bible Proverbs
Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. — Harold Clurman
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. — Bible Proverbs
If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside. — Elif Safak
Common sense is not so common.
I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers. — Gabriel Marcel
There is love like a small lamp, which goes out when the oil is consumed; or like a stream which dries up when it doesn't rain. But there is a love that is like a mighty spring gushing up out of the earth; it keeps flowing forever, and is inexhaustible. — Isaac of Nineveh
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. — Cardinal Richelieu
If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey, it is a first-rate remedy for cough and spitting of blood. — Nicholas Culpeper
Sense Quotes
The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. — Maria Montessori
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense. — Richard Dawkins
Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence. — Maria Montessori
The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. — Immanuel Kant
Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun. — Adi Shankara
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. — Erik Erikson
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. — Groucho Marx
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. — Ronald Reagan
Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. — Adi Shankara
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. — Gerald G. Jampolsky
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way. — Michael Buble
I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well. — Hayley Atwell
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor. — Michael Buble
The person sending ironic text messages has no idea that their voice does not sound so great in text. There's no dry sense of humor in a text. It comes off as a little bit shitty. — Natasha Lyonne
The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever. — Heath Ledger
When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way. — Michael Buble
I have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor. — Bill Walsh
I brought home a baby without telling [husband John McCain], and he not only took it in stride but loved it, immediately embracing Bridget, who shares John's very dry sense of humor, so she and her dad do pretty well together. If I hadn't taken Bridget out, I think she would have become a prostitute or worse, died. — Cindy McCain
I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is. — Topher Grace
My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it's kind of hilarious. — John Mulaney
I have a very dry sense of humor. — Eric Stonestreet
I think some of the big characters, you know, they do these adventures, but they've got something about them, they've got this charisma, and they've got to have a sense of humor. Because whether it be very dry, or very silly, they've got to be likable. — Rhys Darby
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