Humor Quotes
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.David Riesman
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.Agnes Repplie
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
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.Walter Lippmann
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
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.E. B. White
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.Agnes Repplie
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - LawDick Clark
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
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
A well - Developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.William Arthur Ward
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
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 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
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.Margo Kaufman
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 just another defense against the universe.Mel Brooks
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.A. Whitney Brown
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
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
Humor is a rubber sword - - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.Mary Hirsch
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.W. Somerset Maugham
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
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
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 just common sense, dancing.Clive James
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.Leo C. Rosten
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
If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.Bill Cosby
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.Agnes Repplie
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
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
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
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.Ellie Katz
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.Edward Albee
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
