Humor Quotes

Colette, chance acquaintances, 1952 - total absence of humor renders life impossible....
Homer mclin - a humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that...
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
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
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
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White
Aristotle - humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of...
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
Shaftesbury
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
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
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
Mark Twain
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
Bobby Clarke
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
Tom Masson
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
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 just common sense, dancing.
Clive James
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
Clive James
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Author Unknown
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
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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplie
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
If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
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
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo C. Rosten
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
Humor is a rubber sword - - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
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
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
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beeche
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Anton Chekhov
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