Humor Quotes

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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
Freeman John Dyson
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Anton Chekhov
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
Clive james - a sense of humor is just common sense dancing....
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
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
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurbe
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
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
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
Brooks Atkinson
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
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.
American Greetings Card
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 the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
The Talmud
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.
Helitze
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
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank A. Clark
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
Margo Kaufman
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurbe
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
Bill Bryson
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackery
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 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
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 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
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplie
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?
Dick Clark
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
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beeche
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