humor
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Humor is reason gone mad.
29 quotes from Groucho Marx
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
4 more quotes from Lin Yutang
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
29 thoughts from Groucho Marx
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
8 other quotes from Thomas Browne
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
24 other quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
6 sayings 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 other quotes from William Temple
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
24 more thoughts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
98 other quotes from Mark Twain
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
19 sayings from Jonathan Swift
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
2 views from Eric Sevareid
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
98 other thoughts from Mark Twain
A joke is a very serious thing.
74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
98 views from Mark Twain
We do not take humor seriously enough.
2 views from Konrad Lorenz
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.
11 other 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 other sayings from Flip Wilson
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
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
58 other views 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 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 emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
14 other quotes from James Thurber
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
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
29 other thoughts from W. Somerset Maugham
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
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
7 quotes from Max Eastman
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
9 other quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The secret to humor is surprise.
75 more quotes 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 other views 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 other views from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
24 quotes from W. C. Fields
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
5 more quotes from Patricia Highsmith
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
2 quotes from David Seabury
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
7 more quotes from Max Eastman
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
30 more thoughts 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 more quotes from William James
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
Gags die, humor doesn't.
4 wisdom & wit from Jack Benny
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
33 more sayings from Erma Bombeck
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 more wisdom & wit from Lana Turner
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
7 views 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 thoughts from George Jean Nathan
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
7 sayings from Langston Hughes
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
10 other views from Peter De Vries
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
33 more views from Erma Bombeck
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
19 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Sinclair Lewis
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
8 thoughts from Malcolm Muggeridge
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
2 other quotes from Florenz Ziegfeld
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
50 sayings from Robert Frost
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 more quotes from Leo Rosten
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
12 other views from George Herbert
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
43 more quotes 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 other wisdom & wit from Max Frisch
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
13 other sayings from Fred Allen
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 quotes from Harry S. Truman
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
21 other quotes from Mignon McLaughlin
I think I have always had a little humor.
53 other thoughts from Marilyn Monroe
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
3 more sayings 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 quotes from Mark Van Doren
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
58 other wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
5 quotes from Hattie McDaniel
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
19 quotes from E. B. White
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
3 other quotes from Don Herold
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
19 quotes 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 quotes from Lionel Trilling
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
8 quotes from William Makepeace Thackeray
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
3 thoughts 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
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
22 more quotes from Samuel Richardson
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
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
10 wisdom & wit from Robert Benchley
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
9 more thoughts from J. B. Priestley
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
19 quotes from H. G. Wells
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
2 other wisdom & wit from Shel Silverstein
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