Humor Quotes
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.James Thurbe
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.Bill Bryson
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
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
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.Clive James
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
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
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 a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.Mary Hirsch
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 the affectionate communication of insight.Leo C. Rosten
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.A. Whitney Brown
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.Shaftesbury
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
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.E. B. White
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.Margo Kaufman
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
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
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
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - LawDick Clark
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.Edward Albee
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.Clive James
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.Mignon McLaughlin
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.American Greetings Card
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.W. Somerset Maugham
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.Bobby Clarke
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.Author Unknown
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
Wit is the lowest form of humor.Alexander Pope
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, 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 wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
