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
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.William Makepeace Thackery
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law?Dick Clark
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
Humor is a rubber sword - - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.Mary Hirsch
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.Bill Bryson
People are far more sincere and good - Humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.Anton Chekhov
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.Shaftesbury
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 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
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 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 the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
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
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.Clive James
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.Author Unknown
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.E. B. White
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.Margo Kaufman
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.Frank A. Clark
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.American Greetings Card
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.Agnes Repplie
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
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.W. Somerset Maugham
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.Freeman John Dyson
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 can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.W. Somerset Maugham
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
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.Bobby Clarke
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
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.Lin Yutang
