Quotes related to Proverbs 17:22
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
- Samuel Johnson
Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.
- Maya Angelou
Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.
- Washington Irving
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Mirth is God's medicine.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
- Virginia Woolf
No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .
- Conan O'Brien
It's weird doing red carpets; it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.
- Kirsten Dunst
Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.
- J. Oswald Sanders
I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
- Bill Bailey