Humor Quotes
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
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
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
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.A. Whitney Brown
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
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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.T. S. Eliot
Humor is just another defense against the universe.Mel Brooks
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
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
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
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.Bobby Clarke
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
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.Ellie Katz
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.W. Somerset Maugham
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.Henry Ward Beeche
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.Freeman John Dyson
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.Shaftesbury
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.Max Eastman
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.American Greetings Card
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.Clive James
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
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.George Saintsbury
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.Edward Albee
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.Robertson Davies
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
Wit is the lowest form of humor.Alexander Pope
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
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
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
