Humor Quotes
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.W. Somerset Maugham
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.Robertson Davies
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
When humor goes, there goes civilization.Erma Bombeck
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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 brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.Agnes Repplie
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
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
Humor - The perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.Author Unknown
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.Eric Sevareid
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.Edward Albee
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
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
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 by far the most significant activity of the human brain.Edward De Bono
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.Clive James
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.Jacob August Riis
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.American Greetings Card
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
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
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
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.Clive James
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.Freeman John Dyson
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
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.Virginia Woolf
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
Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having somebody ask you where it is.Ivern Ball
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.Leo C. Rosten
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
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
