Humor Quotes
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.Freeman John Dyson
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.Bill Cosby
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
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
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.Bill Bryson
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.Author Unknown
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.Henry Ward Beeche
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.A. Whitney Brown
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 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
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.Mignon McLaughlin
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
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.Robertson Davies
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
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
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.William Rotsle
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
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
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
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.Agnes Repplie
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.Max Eastman
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.Edward De Bono
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.Shaftesbury
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.Ellie Katz
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
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 distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.Agnes Repplie
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.Helitze
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
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
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
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
