A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
-
Similar:
| Quote 9120 | Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. |
| Quote 298 | A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. |
| Quote 11839 | There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. |
| Quote 2667 | Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. |
| Quote 1003 | Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds... |
| Quote 13547 | True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflecti... |
| Quote 973 | Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. |
| Quote 13235 | If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. |
| Quote 1935 | Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else. |