Humor Quotes

Francis bacon - imagination was given to man to compensate him...
Thomas carlyle - true humor springs not more from the head than...
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurbe
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
Freeman john dyson - it is characteristic of all deep human problems...
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law
Dick Clark
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
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurbe
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
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.
Helitze
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.
Tom Masson
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
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz
Righteous people have no sense of humor.
Bertolt Brecht
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
If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - A sense of humor.
Author Unknown
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
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee
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 person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beeche
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
William Rotsle
Humor is a rubber sword - - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
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 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 just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
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 just common sense dancing.
Clive James
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis
Humor is a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch