humor
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 quotes from Agnes Repplier
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
5 more views from Agnes Repplier
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
12 other views from George Herbert
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
13 other quotes 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 thoughts from Harry S. Truman
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 quotes from Max Frisch
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
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
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
2 more sayings from Mark Van Doren
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
21 quotes 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 more wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher
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
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
19 quotes from E. B. White
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
8 thoughts from William Makepeace Thackeray
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
6 thoughts from Lionel Trilling
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
3 more quotes from Don Herold
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
22 quotes from Samuel Richardson
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
3 quotes 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
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
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 views from Robert Benchley
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
2 other thoughts from Shel Silverstein
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
9 wisdom & wit from J. B. Priestley
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
19 sayings from H. G. Wells
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
8 sayings from Thomas Browne
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
Humor is reason gone mad.
29 views from Groucho Marx
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
29 quotes from Groucho Marx
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
24 sayings from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
24 wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
6 thoughts 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 sayings from Lin Yutang
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
2 more views from Eric Sevareid
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
19 quotes from Jonathan Swift
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
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
We do not take humor seriously enough.
2 other quotes from Konrad Lorenz
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
A joke is a very serious thing.
74 more wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
11 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 wisdom & wit from Flip Wilson
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.
11 more quotes from Manuel Puig
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
58 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 views from Flip Wilson
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 wisdom & wit from James Thurber
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
24 more views from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
9 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
5 quotes from Patricia Highsmith
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
14 thoughts 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 more 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
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
7 quotes from Max Eastman
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
24 quotes from W. C. Fields
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 quotes from Frank Moore Colby
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
7 other 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 views from Francis Bacon
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
7 quotes 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 quotes from George Jean Nathan
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
Gags die, humor doesn't.
4 quotes from Jack Benny
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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 more wisdom & wit from Lana Turner
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
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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 more sayings from Sinclair Lewis
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
19 other thoughts from Alfred North Whitehead
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
8 more thoughts from Malcolm Muggeridge
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
50 more views from Robert Frost
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
2 wisdom & wit from Florenz Ziegfeld