Humor Quotes

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Mary Hirsch

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Edward Albee

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

Dick Clark

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

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

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

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

The Talmud

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

Clive James

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

E. B. White

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.

Author Unknown

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.

William Davis

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

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

Helitze

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

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

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Shaftesbury

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Eric Sevareid

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 emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

James Thurbe

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

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

Dick Clark

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

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

Bobby Clarke

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

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Bill Cosby

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 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

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

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Clive James

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

Henry Ward Beeche

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 humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either.

Homer McLin

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

E. B. White

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope