humor
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 sayings 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
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
7 more sayings from Flip Wilson
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
2 other quotes from Steve Allen
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
14 wisdom & wit from James Thurber
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
11 sayings from Manuel Puig
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.
11 quotes from Manuel Puig
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 views from Frank Moore Colby
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
30 other quotes from Virginia Woolf
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
7 more wisdom & wit from Max Eastman
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
7 quotes 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 more quotes from Francis Bacon
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
5 other sayings from Patricia Highsmith
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
24 more quotes from W. C. Fields
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
24 other quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
The secret to humor is surprise.
75 more sayings from Aristotle
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
9 sayings from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
29 other views from W. Somerset Maugham
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
2 quotes 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 more views 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 wisdom & wit from William James
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
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
7 wisdom & wit from Langston Hughes
Gags die, humor doesn't.
4 quotes from Jack Benny
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
33 thoughts from Erma Bombeck
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
7 quotes from Langston Hughes
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
33 sayings 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 quotes from Sinclair Lewis
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
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
10 sayings 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 more views from George Jean Nathan
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
8 views from Malcolm Muggeridge
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
2 more quotes from Florenz Ziegfeld
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
6 other wisdom & wit from Leo Rosten
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
12 quotes 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 thoughts from Agnes Repplier
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
43 quotes from Alexander Pope
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
13 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 quotes from Harry S. Truman
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
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
58 more thoughts 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
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
2 other views from Mark Van Doren
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
21 more wisdom & wit from Mignon McLaughlin
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
3 quotes from Irvin S. Cobb
I think I have always had a little humor.
53 thoughts from Marilyn Monroe
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
8 quotes from William Makepeace Thackeray
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
3 wisdom & wit from Don Herold
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
19 views 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 wisdom & wit from Lionel Trilling
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
19 sayings from E. B. White
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
22 sayings 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 more quotes from Samuel Richardson
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
3 more quotes from Robertson Davies
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
2 quotes 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 quotes from William Howard Taft
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
19 other 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 wisdom & wit from Alice Meynell
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
9 more sayings from J. B. Priestley
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
10 more wisdom & wit from Robert Benchley
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
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
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
6 other quotes from William Temple
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
29 other thoughts from Groucho Marx
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Humor is reason gone mad.
29 more views from Groucho Marx
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
24 wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
8 other quotes from Thomas Browne
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
4 more thoughts from Lin Yutang
A joke is a very serious thing.
74 more sayings from Winston Churchill
We do not take humor seriously enough.
2 more quotes from Konrad Lorenz
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
98 more quotes from Mark Twain
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
2 thoughts from Eric Sevareid
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
19 views 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
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
98 more wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
98 views from Mark Twain