Humor Quotes

Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.
Helitze
Colette, chance acquaintances, 1952 - total absence of humor renders life impossible....
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Robertson davies - the love of truth lies at the root of much humor....
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
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.
Author Unknown
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
Humor is a rubber sword - - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
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
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.
American Greetings Card
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo C. Rosten
David riesman - america is not only big and rich, it is...
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplie
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beeche
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
Bill Bryson
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 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 is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.
William Davis
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.
George Saintsbury
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
Shaftesbury
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
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
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.
Walter Lippmann
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Anton Chekhov
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.
Ivern Ball
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Author Unknown
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee
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
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
Tom Masson
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
Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.
Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
William Rotsle
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon