Humor Quotes

Humor is a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
George saintsbury - nothing is more curious than the almost savage...
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
Author unknown - imagination was given man to compensate for what...
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
The Talmud
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.
Helitze
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
Shaftesbury
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies
Edward albee - i have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no...
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.
Author Unknown
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James
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 pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beeche
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
Margo Kaufman
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
Brooks Atkinson
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
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
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
Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.
Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.
American Greetings Card
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
Humor is a rubber sword - - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
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
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz
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
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
Tom Masson
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplie
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
Freeman John Dyson
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham