Humor Quotes

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beeche
Agnes repplie - humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are...
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
A. whitney brown - that is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no...
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
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackery
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
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley
Jennifer jones - if you could choose one characteristic that would...
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.
Helitze
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.
Tom Masson
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
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
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurbe
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.
Ivern Ball
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Author Unknown
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Anton Chekhov
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
Bobby Clarke
Humor is a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White
Humor is a rubber sword - - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope
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
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 is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law
Dick Clark
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
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
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.
Bill Cosby
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
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