This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Absence | Bible | Humor | Literature | Bible |
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Humor | Imagination | Man | Sense |
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Humor | Imagination | Man | Sense |
A case might be made for the potentiality superior humor of the religious person who has settled once and for all what things are of ultimate value, sacred and untouchable. For then nothing else in the world need be taken seriously.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs; jolted by every pebble in the road.
Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson
To live is not just to survive, but to thrive with passion, compassion, some humor and style.
Compassion | Humor | Passion | Style |
Apela Colorado, aka Pamela Colorado
Humor is a critical ingredient of all truth seeking, even in the most powerful rituals because... humor balances gravity.
In humor, there is truth. We need to take humor more seriously.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt; its essence is love: it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us.
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.
Existence | Humor | Sensibility |
W. Somerset Maugham, fully William Somerset Maugham
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.