Humor Quotes
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
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.William Davis
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.Max Eastman
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
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
When humor goes, there goes civilization.Erma Bombeck
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.Jacob August Riis
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.E. B. White
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.W. Somerset Maugham
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.Edward De Bono
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
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
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.American Greetings Card
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
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
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.Leo C. Rosten
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
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.Helitze
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
Humor is a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.Mary Hirsch
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.Agnes Repplie
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.Margo Kaufman
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
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
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.Clive James
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
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.W. Somerset Maugham
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
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.Bill Bryson
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
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.A. Whitney Brown
