Humor Quotes

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

Bobby Clarke

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

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E. B. White

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman John Dyson

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.

Henry Ward Beeche

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