Humor Quotes
Humor is a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.Mary Hirsch
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.Freeman John Dyson
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 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 brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.Agnes Repplie
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.William Davis
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.Agnes Repplie
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.Frank A. Clark
Righteous people have no sense of humor.Bertolt Brecht
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
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.Ellie Katz
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?Dick Clark
There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble.Sinclair Lewis
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.Bill Cosby
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.Agnes Repplie
Humor is a rubber sword - - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.Mary Hirsch
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.Ivern Ball
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.T. S. Eliot
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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
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 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
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.Eric Sevareid
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
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
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.Bill Bryson
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.Clive James
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.A. Whitney Brown
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.George Saintsbury
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 a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.Edward Albee
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
