Humor Quotes

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
Homer mclin - a humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that...
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
E. b. white, some remarks on humor, introduction - humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the...
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 just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
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
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz
Joseph addison, the spectator, july 12, 1711 - exercise ferments the humors, casts them into...
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
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
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
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
Righteous people have no sense of humor.
Bertolt Brecht
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
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
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
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies
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
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
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Author Unknown
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
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
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.
George Saintsbury
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.
Ivern Ball
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Eric Sevareid
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 a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
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
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White