A Quote by Agnes Repplier

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

Agnes Repplier

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Heart Humor Least Point Sanity

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Agnes Repplier
American - Writer
April 1, 1855 - November 15, 1950

One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

D. H. Lawrence

Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us. The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.

Vance Havner

and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

Hunter S. Thompson

When it got to the point of sanity or money, I thought I'd rather have sanity.

Randy Meisner

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

R. D. Laing

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

Ricky Gervais

Have a heart that never hardens

Charles Dickens

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

Hunter S. Thompson

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

Ford Madox Ford

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

Lance Bass

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.