Humor Quotes

Franklin d. roosevelt - i sometimes think that the saving grace of...
Clive jones - common sense and sense of humor are the same...
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
William Rotsle
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
If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
James thurbe - the wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist...
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Anton Chekhov
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beeche
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.
Ivern Ball
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James
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
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
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
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
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
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
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.
Author Unknown
Humor is a rubber sword - - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.
Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
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 just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
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
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.
George Saintsbury
Righteous people have no sense of humor.
Bertolt Brecht
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
Clive James
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
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White
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