Humor Quotes
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.Mignon McLaughlin
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.Frank A. Clark
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.Eric Sevareid
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.William Davis
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.Clifton Paul Fadiman
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.Margo Kaufman
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?Dick Clark
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.Max Eastman
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.Leo C. Rosten
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.Agnes Repplie
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
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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.T. S. Eliot
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.Bill Bryson
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.Ivern Ball
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
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
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
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
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 the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.Virginia Woolf
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
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.Shaftesbury
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
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
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
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.W. Somerset Maugham
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.Clive James
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.American Greetings Card
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
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
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.George Saintsbury
