Humor Quotes

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

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

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Agnes Repplie

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E. B. White

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Eric Sevareid

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Leo C. Rosten

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

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Erma Bombeck

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

Dick Clark

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.

Author Unknown

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

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.

Bill Cosby

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

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

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Frank A. Clark

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

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

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 distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.

Agnes Repplie

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Jacob August Riis

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

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.

William Davis

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

Bertolt Brecht

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

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Jennifer Jones

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

If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

William Rotsle

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

Dick Clark

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

E. B. White

Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.

Unknown, epitaph for a loved one

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

Humor is a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe