Humor Quotes

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.

Henry Ward Beeche

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.

George Saintsbury

Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.

The Talmud

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Makepeace Thackery

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

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Clive James

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

Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.

Helitze

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Max Eastman

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

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Ellie Katz

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurbe

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

Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

Author Unknown

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf

People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Anton Chekhov

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Bobby Clarke

Humor is a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E. B. White

Humor is a rubber sword - - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope

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

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 always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law

Dick Clark

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

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

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Eric Sevareid

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.

Bill Cosby

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

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