Humor Quotes

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

Anton Chekhov

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Agnes Repplie

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

Edward Albee

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

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 the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.

Lin Yutang

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

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

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

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

Eric Sevareid

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

William Rotsle

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Max Eastman

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952

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

Helitze

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

Dick Clark

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

William Davis

Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.

H. G. Mendelson

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Frank A. Clark

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

Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.

American Greetings Card

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson

Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.

Unknown, epitaph for a loved one

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Erma Bombeck

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Francis Bacon

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

Bill Cosby

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

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

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

If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

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

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Clive James