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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. -- William Temple
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth. -- Barry Eisler
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. -- Thomas Jefferson
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. -- Victor Borge
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy. -- Brendan Coyle
Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it. -- Kara Swisher
Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to. -- Grace Slick
The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste. -- Robert Mankoff
It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate. -- Sloane Crosley
Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well. -- Rob Thomas
And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over. -- Tony Hale
Humor is the whole truth. -- Frigyes Karinthy
Humor is just truth, only faster! -- Gilda Radner
Humor is the good natured side of a truth. -- Mark Twain
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. -- Robertson Davies
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth. -- Stan Laurel
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. -- Brendan Coyle
Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. -- Charles Willeford
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth. -- Bill Watterson
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. -- George Saunders
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? -- Dick Clark
Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril. -- David Sedaris
I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally. -- Robert Mankoff
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth. -- Mark Van Doren
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion. -- H. L. Mencken
If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today. -- Toba Beta
A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps. -- Jill Abramson

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