Humor Quotes

Anton chekhov - people are far more sincere and good - humored at...
George saintsbury - nothing is more curious than the almost savage...
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
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
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
Righteous people have no sense of humor.
Bertolt Brecht
Dick clark - humor is always based on a modicum of truth. have...
Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.
Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
Leo C. Rosten
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.
Bill Cosby
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
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.
Helitze
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz
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
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Author Unknown
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank A. Clark
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
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackery
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
A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either.
Homer McLin
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
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
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law
Dick Clark
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo C. Rosten
Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive Jones
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
Bill Bryson
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Author Unknown
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.
William Davis
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
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