Humor Quotes

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurbe
James thurbe - the wit makes fun of other persons the satirist...
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White
Mark twain - i have never examined the subject of humor until...
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.
George Saintsbury
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank A. Clark
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.
Tom Masson
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.
Ivern Ball
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.
Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Author Unknown
Clive james - a sense of humor is just common sense dancing....
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
Humor is a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
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
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
Shaftesbury
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
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
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.
Author Unknown
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
Bobby Clarke
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
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo C. Rosten
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
Bill Bryson
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
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
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope
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
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 by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
William Rotsle
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz
Humor is a rubber sword - - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
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
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurbe