Humor Quotes

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
E. b. white - whatever else an american believes or disbelieves...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Author Unknown
Unknown, epitaph for a loved one - love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my...
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
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
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
Bill Bryson
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beeche
Robertson davies - the love of truth lies at the root of much humor....
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
Shaftesbury
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
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis
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
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 - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Author Unknown
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
Tom Masson
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones
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
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurbe
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
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.
Helitze
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
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
The Talmud
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
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
Humor is a rubber sword - - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
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
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
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurbe
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 distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplie