Humor Quotes

American greetings card - sometimes the only sense we can make out of life...
Brooks atkinson - the humorous man recognizes that absolute purity,...
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James
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 have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
Homer mclin - a humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that...
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
The Talmud
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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
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
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
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.
William Davis
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplie
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
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 always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law
Dick Clark
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackery
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 distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis
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
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
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
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.
Helitze
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
Margo Kaufman
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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