humor
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
9 thoughts from J. B. Priestley
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
2 more sayings from Shel Silverstein
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
19 quotes from H. G. Wells
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
3 views from Alice Meynell
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
10 views from Robert Benchley
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
4 sayings from William Howard Taft
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
29 other thoughts from Groucho Marx
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
4 other views from Lin Yutang
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
8 quotes from Thomas Browne
Humor is reason gone mad.
29 quotes from Groucho Marx
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
6 quotes from William Temple
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
24 wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
6 other sayings from William Temple
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
24 sayings from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
19 quotes from Jonathan Swift
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
98 more quotes from Mark Twain
A joke is a very serious thing.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
2 sayings from Eric Sevareid
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
98 more quotes from Mark Twain
We do not take humor seriously enough.
2 wisdom & wit from Konrad Lorenz
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
98 more sayings from Mark Twain
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
98 more quotes from Mark Twain
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
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.
14 more quotes from James Thurber
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
2 quotes from Steve Allen
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
14 more thoughts from James Thurber
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
7 views from Flip Wilson
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
11 other thoughts from Manuel Puig
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.
11 other thoughts from Manuel Puig
Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
7 sayings from Flip Wilson
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
29 more quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
5 more quotes from Patricia Highsmith
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
67 other views from Francis Bacon
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
7 more thoughts from Max Eastman
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
9 quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The secret to humor is surprise.
75 more thoughts from Aristotle
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
3 quotes from Frank Moore Colby
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
24 views from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
24 other thoughts from W. C. Fields
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
14 quotes from William Arthur Ward
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
2 views from David Seabury
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
40 more thoughts from William James
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
7 quotes from Max Eastman
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
30 more wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf
Gags die, humor doesn't.
4 other thoughts from Jack Benny
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
33 wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
10 more quotes from Peter De Vries
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
12 sayings from George Jean Nathan
Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
6 sayings from Lana Turner
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
7 quotes from Langston Hughes
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
19 more quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
6 views from Sinclair Lewis
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
33 other views from Erma Bombeck
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
7 more wisdom & wit from Langston Hughes
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
8 quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
50 wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
2 more thoughts from Florenz Ziegfeld
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
12 thoughts from George Herbert
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
5 other quotes from Agnes Repplier
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
5 sayings from Agnes Repplier
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
6 thoughts from Leo Rosten
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
43 wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
7 quotes from Max Frisch
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
26 more thoughts from Harry S. Truman
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
13 quotes from Fred Allen
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
5 other sayings from Hattie McDaniel
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
2 other quotes from Mark Van Doren
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
3 sayings from Irvin S. Cobb
I think I have always had a little humor.
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
21 other quotes from Mignon McLaughlin
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
58 wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
19 thoughts from E. B. White
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
3 more thoughts from Don Herold
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
19 views from E. B. White
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
8 other views from William Makepeace Thackeray
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
6 more views from Lionel Trilling
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
22 more thoughts from Samuel Richardson
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
3 sayings from Robertson Davies
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
22 quotes from Samuel Richardson