humor
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
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
98 thoughts 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 other quotes from Eric Sevareid
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
A joke is a very serious thing.
74 sayings from Winston Churchill
We do not take humor seriously enough.
2 quotes from Konrad Lorenz
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
7 quotes from Flip Wilson
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
14 other thoughts 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 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 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.
11 other wisdom & wit from Manuel Puig
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
11 other quotes 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 thoughts from Flip Wilson
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
9 other quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
7 thoughts from Max Eastman
The secret to humor is surprise.
75 quotes from Aristotle
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 views from W. Somerset Maugham
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 views from Frank Moore Colby
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
7 other sayings from Max Eastman
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
30 quotes from Virginia Woolf
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
5 other quotes from Patricia Highsmith
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
24 other wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Franklin D. Roosevelt
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
14 more 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 wisdom & wit from William James
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
2 other sayings from David Seabury
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
10 other thoughts from Peter De Vries
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
6 thoughts from Sinclair Lewis
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
19 other quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
33 more quotes from Erma Bombeck
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
33 views from Erma Bombeck
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
7 more wisdom & wit from Langston Hughes
Gags die, humor doesn't.
4 other sayings from Jack Benny
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 thoughts from George Jean Nathan
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
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
7 more quotes from Langston Hughes
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
2 quotes from Florenz Ziegfeld
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
50 views from Robert Frost
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
8 more views from Malcolm Muggeridge
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
12 views from George Herbert
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
5 views from Agnes Repplier
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
5 more wisdom & wit from Agnes Repplier
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
6 views from Leo Rosten
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
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
43 more thoughts 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 quotes from Max Frisch
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
13 thoughts from Fred Allen
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
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
2 more wisdom & wit from Mark Van Doren
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
21 sayings 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
I think I have always had a little humor.
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
19 more wisdom & wit from E. B. White
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 other 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Robertson Davies
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
22 other quotes 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 thoughts from Samuel Richardson
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
2 views 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
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 thoughts from Robert Benchley
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
9 other views from J. B. Priestley
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
19 sayings from H. G. Wells
Humor is reason gone mad.
29 views from Groucho Marx
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
100 other sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
8 other views from Thomas Browne
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
4 wisdom & wit from Lin Yutang
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
24 more quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
24 wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 quotes from William Temple
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
6 thoughts from William Temple