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

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• Wit
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• 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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• Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

  

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• Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

  

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• I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

  

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• Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

  

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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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• You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.

  

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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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• Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

  

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• And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.

  

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• Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

  

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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
  • Wit