Humor Quotes

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

E. B. White

Righteous people have no sense of humor.

Bertolt Brecht

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

Frank A. Clark

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

Tom Masson

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

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

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

Dick Clark

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 also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Bill Cosby

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

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

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Edward De Bono

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

Clifton Paul Fadiman

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

Dick Clark

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

James Thurbe

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

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

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope

Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.

The Talmud

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

Margo Kaufman

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 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

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Mignon McLaughlin

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Bobby Clarke

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

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

WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Ellie Katz

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

William Makepeace Thackery

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

Clive James