Humor Quotes

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 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

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

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Erma Bombeck

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

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Tom Masson

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

Frank A. Clark

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

Agnes Repplie

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman John Dyson

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

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Leo C. Rosten

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

Dick Clark

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Makepeace Thackery

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

Dick Clark

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

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

Jennifer Jones

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

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurbe

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

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

Mary Hirsch

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Edward Albee

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

Leo C. Rosten

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

Edward De Bono

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

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.

Margo Kaufman

Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.

American Greetings Card

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

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham

Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.

Helitze

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

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Bobby Clarke

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.

Lin Yutang

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