humor
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
8 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
5 thoughts from Agnes Repplier
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
5 wisdom & wit from Agnes Repplier
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
12 sayings from George Herbert
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
6 other wisdom & wit from Leo Rosten
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 views from Harry S. Truman
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
43 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 thoughts from Max Frisch
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
21 other wisdom & wit 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 views from Henry Ward Beecher
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
3 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 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 other wisdom & wit from Hattie McDaniel
I think I have always had a little humor.
53 more 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 wisdom & wit from Lionel Trilling
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
19 more quotes from E. B. White
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
8 wisdom & wit from William Makepeace Thackeray
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
3 quotes from Don Herold
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
19 wisdom & wit from E. B. White
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
22 thoughts from Samuel Richardson
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 quotes from Samuel Richardson
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
19 views from H. G. Wells
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 views 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 more sayings from Robert Benchley
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
9 quotes from J. B. Priestley
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
3 thoughts from Alice Meynell
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
2 other quotes from Shel Silverstein
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
6 wisdom & wit from William Temple
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
8 thoughts from Thomas Browne
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
24 more thoughts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
24 views from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
4 more sayings from Lin Yutang
Humor is reason gone mad.
29 quotes from Groucho Marx
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
29 views from Groucho Marx
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
98 other thoughts from Mark Twain
A joke is a very serious thing.
74 more quotes from Winston Churchill
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
98 more 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 quotes from Mark Twain
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
19 views from Jonathan Swift
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
We do not take humor seriously enough.
2 wisdom & wit from Konrad Lorenz
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
2 other quotes from Eric Sevareid
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
11 wisdom & wit from Manuel Puig
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
7 views from Flip Wilson
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
58 more 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 other quotes from James Thurber
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
2 other quotes from Steve Allen
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 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
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
24 sayings from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
9 views from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The secret to humor is surprise.
75 quotes from Aristotle
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
29 views from W. Somerset Maugham
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
7 views from Max Eastman
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
14 wisdom & wit 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
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
2 quotes from David Seabury
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
30 quotes from Virginia Woolf
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
24 quotes from W. C. Fields
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 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
7 thoughts from Max Eastman
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
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
5 more wisdom & wit from Patricia Highsmith
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
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
19 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
7 other thoughts from Langston Hughes
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
7 other 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 quotes from Lana Turner
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
33 wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck
Gags die, humor doesn't.
4 other quotes from Jack Benny
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
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 quotes from George Jean Nathan