Humor Quotes

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

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

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?

Dick Clark

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

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.

Henry Ward Beeche

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Shaftesbury

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson