Aristotle Quotes

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

• Humor
• Test
• False
• Wit
• Gravity

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• I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.

  

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• Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

  

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• In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.

  

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• The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

  

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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
  • Humor
  • Test
  • False