Quotes About Humor
1. A joke is a very serious thing. - Winston Churchill
2. Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. - Mark Twain
3. 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
4. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. - Mahatma Gandhi
5. 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
6. Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. - Mark Twain
7. 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
8. The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven. - Mark Twain
9. You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. - Bill Cosby
10. 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
11. Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. - Steven Wright
12. Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. - W. C. Fields
13. The secret to humor is surprise. - Aristotle
14. There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God. - Bill Cosby
15. When humor goes, there goes civilization. - Erma Bombeck
16. Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. - Groucho Marx
17. 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
18. My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing. - Emo Philips
19. A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. - Mignon McLaughlin
20. Humor is reason gone mad. - Groucho Marx
21. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. - Langston Hughes
22. 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
23. Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. - Peter Ustinov
24. 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
25. Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. - Langston Hughes
26. Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. - James Thurber
27. Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. - Ambrose Bierce
28. Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. - E. B. White
29. Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. - Agnes Repplier
30. Humor is just another defense against the universe. - Mel Brooks
31. Wit is the lowest form of humor. - Alexander Pope
32. 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
33. Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival. - Aung San Suu Kyi
34. A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. - Don Herold
35. A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. - Clifton Paul Fadiman
36. A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. - Doug Larson
37. 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
38. If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. - Jennifer Jones
39. A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. - Chevy Chase
40. Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. - Simon Wiesenthal
41. Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. - James Thurber
42. In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. - George Herbert
43. Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye
44. Gags die, humor doesn't. - Jack Benny
45. All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it. - Fred Allen
46. Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. - Allen Klein
47. Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten
48. You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude. - Don Rickles
49. Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. - Sid Caesar
50. Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. - Allen Klein
51. Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman
52. Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. - Flip Wilson
53. What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. - Bernard Williams
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