Humor Quotes

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law
Dick Clark
Edward albee - i have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no...
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Mark Twain
Walter lippmann - people who are tremendously concerned about their...
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
Righteous people have no sense of humor.
Bertolt Brecht
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.
Ivern Ball
Bill cosby - if you can find humor in anything, you can...
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.
George Saintsbury
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackery
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurbe
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.
Author Unknown
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - No one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplie
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
Bobby Clarke
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
Humor is a rubber sword - - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurbe
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble.
Sinclair Lewis
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank A. Clark
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.
H. G. Mendelson
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
Mark Twain
For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.
George Barrell Cheeve
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.
Bill Cosby
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
Clive James