Humor Quotes
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 is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.Virginia Woolf
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
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
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.A. Whitney Brown
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 - Law?Dick Clark
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.American Greetings Card
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.Mignon McLaughlin
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.Clive James
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.Agnes Repplie
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
Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
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
Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.Clive Jones
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.James Thurbe
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
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
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.Max Eastman
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
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.Edward Albee
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.William Davis
Humor is just another defense against the universe.Mel Brooks
When humor goes, there goes civilization.Erma Bombeck
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.William Makepeace Thackery
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.George Saintsbury
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.Clive James
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.Margo Kaufman
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.Agnes Repplie
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
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
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.Leo C. Rosten
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.Author Unknown
