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 quotes from Francis Bacon
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
29 other quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
9 quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The secret to humor is surprise.
75 thoughts from Aristotle
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 quotes from W. C. Fields
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
5 views 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 other thoughts from Frank Moore Colby
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
7 wisdom & wit from Max Eastman
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 quotes from Virginia Woolf
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 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 quotes from William James
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
33 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 quotes from Peter De Vries
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
19 thoughts from Alfred North Whitehead
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
7 other views from Langston Hughes
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
7 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 other wisdom & wit 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 views from George Jean Nathan
Gags die, humor doesn't.
4 quotes from Jack Benny
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
2 views from Florenz Ziegfeld
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 thoughts from Malcolm Muggeridge
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
5 more quotes from Agnes Repplier
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
12 views from George Herbert
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
6 thoughts from Leo Rosten
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
5 more 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 quotes 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 views 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 wisdom & wit from Mark Van Doren
I think I have always had a little humor.
53 quotes 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 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
3 quotes from Irvin S. Cobb
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
21 thoughts from Mignon McLaughlin
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
3 other sayings from Don Herold
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
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
8 views from William Makepeace Thackeray
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 thoughts from Lionel Trilling
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
3 other quotes from Robertson Davies
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
22 thoughts 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 quotes from Samuel Richardson
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 thoughts 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 quotes 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 views from J. B. Priestley
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
19 quotes 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 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
8 more quotes from Thomas Browne
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
29 thoughts 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 sayings from William Temple
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
6 sayings 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 thoughts from Lin Yutang
Humor is reason gone mad.
29 more quotes from Groucho Marx
A joke is a very serious thing.
74 other quotes from Winston Churchill
We do not take humor seriously enough.
2 other wisdom & wit from Konrad Lorenz
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
2 other views from Eric Sevareid
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
19 other sayings 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 sayings 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 quotes from Flip Wilson
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.
11 sayings from Manuel Puig
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
14 more sayings from James Thurber
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
2 other 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 sayings from James Thurber
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
58 more quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
7 more quotes from Flip Wilson