Humor Quotes

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

  Edward Albee

• 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

• When humor goes, there goes civilization.

  Erma Bombeck

• Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

  Victor Borge

• Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

  Sid Caesar

• A joke is a very serious thing.

  Winston Churchill

• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  Irvin S. Cobb

• You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosby

• A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

  Clifton Fadiman

• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

  Mohandas Gandhi

• Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

  Thomas W. Higginson

• Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

  Thomas W. Higginson

• There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

  Thomas W. Higginson

• When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

  Thomas W. Higginson

• If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

  Jennifer Jones

• A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

  Mignon McLaughlin

• 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

• A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Humor is just another defense against the universe.

  Mel Brooks

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

  Frank Howard Clark

• Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

  Max Eastman

• 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

• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  Larry Gelbart

• Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

  William James

• Humor is reason gone mad.

  Groucho Marx

• Wit is the lowest form of humor.

  Alexander Pope

• Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

  Leo Rosten

• The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

  Peter De Vries

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

  Agnes Repplier

• Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

  Agnes Repplier

• The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

  Jacob August Riis

• A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

  Hugh Sidey

• Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

  Mark Twain

• Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

  Mark Twain

• Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

  Peter Ustinov

• 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

• 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

• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

  E. B. White

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

  Lin Yutang

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