Humor Quotes

Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.
Ivern Ball
Jennifer jones - if you could choose one characteristic that would...
Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.
Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
Shaftesbury - it is the saying of an ancient sage that humor...
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
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
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
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
Righteous people have no sense of humor.
Bertolt Brecht
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
Clive james - a sense of humor is just common sense, dancing....
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
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.
William Davis
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 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
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
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
Bobby Clarke
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
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
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
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.
Author Unknown
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
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
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
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
William Rotsle
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis
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 - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Author Unknown
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo C. Rosten
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.
Bill Cosby
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 is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono