Humor Quotes

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law
Dick Clark
Bill bryson - he had the sort of face that makes you realize...
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
The Talmud
Walter lippmann - people who are tremendously concerned about their...
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
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
Humor is a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
Righteous people have no sense of humor.
Bertolt Brecht
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
Tom masson - think of what would happen to us in america if...
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono
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 a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
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
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo C. Rosten
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
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
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
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
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplie
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
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
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank A. Clark
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.
Bill Cosby
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 person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beeche
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
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
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.
Helitze
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
William Rotsle
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis