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