Humor Quotes
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.Clive James
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.David Riesman
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.Shaftesbury
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.Jessamyn West
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.Freeman John Dyson
If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.Bill Cosby
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.T. S. Eliot
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.Author Unknown
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.Henry Ward Beeche
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.Jacob August Riis
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.Agnes Repplie
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.Clive James
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.Edward Albee
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.James Thurbe
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.William Rotsle
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.Max Eastman
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 perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.Christopher Morley
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.Margo Kaufman
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.W. Somerset Maugham
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
Wit is the lowest form of humor.Alexander Pope
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.Agnes Repplie
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
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
A well - Developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.William Arthur Ward
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
