Humor Quotes
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.Author Unknown
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
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
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
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
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 distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.Agnes Repplie
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.Christopher Morley
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.Jacob August Riis
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.W. Somerset Maugham
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.William Rotsle
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
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.Bobby Clarke
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.Frank A. Clark
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
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
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
Wit is the lowest form of humor.Alexander Pope
A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either.Homer McLin
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.American Greetings Card
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
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.Clifton Paul Fadiman
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
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.W. Somerset Maugham
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
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 distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.Agnes Repplie
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
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
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
