Humor Quotes

Clifton paul fadiman - a sense of humor is the ability to understand a...
Bill cosby - you can turn painful situations around through...
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
Margo Kaufman
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.
Helitze
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz
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
Joseph addison, the spectator, july 12, 1711 - exercise ferments the humors, casts them into...
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
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
Bobby Clarke
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White
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
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
The Talmud
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, 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
Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.
Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
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
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
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
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.
Tom Masson
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father - In - Law
Dick Clark
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
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
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
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
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope
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
Righteous people have no sense of humor.
Bertolt Brecht
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
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
Agnes Repplie
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beeche
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurbe
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank A. Clark
Humor is a rubber sword - It allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackery
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot