Humor e Ironia

The difference between satire and humor is that the satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive— often to release him again for another chance.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances at any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

A sense of humor is a sense of proportion.

Humor is hope’s companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things, I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

Humor is but another weapon against the universe.

Among all kinds of writing, there is none in which authors are more apt to miscarry than in works of humor, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

If you beat children for pleasure, avow your object frankly, and play the game according to the rules, as a foxhunter does; and you will do comparatively little harm. No foxhunter is such a cad as to pretend that he hunts the fox to teach it not to steal chickens, or that he suffers more acutely than the fox at the death. Remember that even in childbeating there is the sportsman's way and the cad's way.

A BOOK IS A MIRROR: IF AN ASS PEERS INTO IT, YOU CAN’T EXPECT AN APOSTLE TO LOOK OUT.

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

It is foolish and quite unfitting for an educated man to spend all his time on acquiring bulging muscles, a thick neck and mighty thighs. The large amounts they are compelled to eat make them dull-witted.

GOLF IS A DAY SPENT IN A ROUND OF STRENUOUS IDLENESS.

I MUST COMPLAIN THE CARDS ARE ILL SHUFFLED, TILL I HAVE A GOOD HAND.

SUDDEN SUCCESS IN GOLF IS LIKE THE SUDDEN ACQUISITION OF WEALTH. IT IS APT TO UNSETTLE AND DETERIORATE THE CHARACTER.

Deer-stalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

RUGBY IS A GOOD OCCASION FOR KEEPING 30 BULLIES FAR FROM THE CENTRE OF THE CITY.