humor
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 sayings from Francis Bacon
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
29 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
9 thoughts from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The secret to humor is surprise.
75 quotes from Aristotle
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 views from W. C. Fields
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
5 more thoughts from Patricia Highsmith
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 wisdom & wit from Frank Moore Colby
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
7 quotes from Max Eastman
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
7 more thoughts from Max Eastman
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
30 other quotes from Virginia Woolf
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
2 sayings from David Seabury
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
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 quotes from William James
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
33 other quotes 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 sayings from Peter De Vries
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
19 other sayings from Alfred North Whitehead
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
7 wisdom & wit from Langston Hughes
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
7 views from Langston Hughes
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 sayings from Lana Turner
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
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
33 sayings from Erma Bombeck
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 more quotes from George Jean Nathan
Gags die, humor doesn't.
4 other thoughts from Jack Benny
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
2 quotes from Florenz Ziegfeld
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
50 more thoughts from Robert Frost
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
8 quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
5 quotes from Agnes Repplier
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
12 thoughts from George Herbert
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
6 views from Leo Rosten
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
5 more wisdom & wit 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 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
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 views from Alexander Pope
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
5 more thoughts 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
I think I have always had a little humor.
53 thoughts from Marilyn Monroe
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
3 other sayings from Irvin S. Cobb
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
21 more views from Mignon McLaughlin
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
3 quotes from Don Herold
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
19 other quotes from E. B. White
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
8 other thoughts from William Makepeace Thackeray
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
19 thoughts from E. B. White
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
6 more thoughts from Lionel Trilling
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
3 quotes from Robertson Davies
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
22 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Richardson
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
22 views from Samuel Richardson
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
2 wisdom & wit from Shel Silverstein
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
3 other quotes from Alice Meynell
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 wisdom & wit from William Howard Taft
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
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
9 thoughts from J. B. Priestley
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
19 more thoughts from H. G. Wells
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
24 other quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
24 views from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
8 more thoughts from Thomas Browne
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
29 quotes from Groucho Marx
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
6 views from William Temple
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
6 quotes from William Temple
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
4 quotes from Lin Yutang
Humor is reason gone mad.
29 other thoughts from Groucho Marx
A joke is a very serious thing.
74 thoughts from Winston Churchill
We do not take humor seriously enough.
2 other sayings from Konrad Lorenz
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
98 views from Mark Twain
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
2 sayings from Eric Sevareid
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 quotes from Mark Twain
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
98 quotes 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 quotes from Mark Twain
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
11 more quotes 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 more sayings from Flip Wilson
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.
11 other thoughts from Manuel Puig
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
14 sayings 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 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 thoughts from James Thurber
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
58 other thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
7 quotes from Flip Wilson