Humor Quotes
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?Dick Clark
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.Eric Sevareid
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.E. B. White
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.Edward De Bono
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
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
For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.George Barrell Cheeve
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
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
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.Agnes Repplie
Humor is just another defense against the universe.Mel Brooks
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.Ivern Ball
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 great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.Shaftesbury
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
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.Ellie Katz
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
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
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.Robertson Davies
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.Agnes Repplie
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.James Thurbe
When humor goes, there goes civilization.Erma Bombeck
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.Clive James
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.Leo C. Rosten
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.George Saintsbury
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.Max Eastman
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
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
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.W. Somerset Maugham
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
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.W. Somerset Maugham