Humor Quotes
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.Clifton Paul Fadiman
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
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
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.E. B. White
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.Virginia Woolf
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
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
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
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
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
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
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.William Davis
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.Leo C. Rosten
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.Ivern Ball
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
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.Mignon McLaughlin
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
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
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.Max Eastman
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.William Rotsle
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
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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.T. S. Eliot
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?Dick Clark
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
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.William Makepeace Thackery
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
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
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - LawDick Clark
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.Clive James
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.Bill Bryson
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.Frank A. Clark
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
