Humor Quotes

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
Bill cosby - if you can find humor in anything, you can...
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
Tom masson - think of what would happen to us in america if...
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurbe
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
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 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
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 the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beeche
E. b. white - whatever else an american believes or disbelieves...
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
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 brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplie
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank A. Clark
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
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
William Rotsle
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
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
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
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 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
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
Clive James
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
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law
Dick Clark
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
Freeman John Dyson
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.
American Greetings Card
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
Humor is a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackery
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
Shaftesbury
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952