humor
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 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Samuel Richardson
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 more quotes from H. G. Wells
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 other views 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 other quotes from Robert Benchley
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
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
8 thoughts from Thomas Browne
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
29 thoughts from Groucho Marx
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
4 sayings from Lin Yutang
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
24 other sayings from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
24 other quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Humor is reason gone mad.
29 wisdom & wit from Groucho Marx
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
6 other wisdom & wit from William Temple
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
A joke is a very serious thing.
74 other views from Winston Churchill
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
98 views from Mark Twain
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
2 wisdom & wit from Eric Sevareid
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
19 more sayings from Jonathan Swift
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 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Mark Twain
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
2 other thoughts from Steve Allen
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
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.
11 quotes from Manuel Puig
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 sayings from Flip Wilson
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
14 other quotes from James Thurber
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
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
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 wisdom & wit from Frank Moore Colby
The secret to humor is surprise.
75 sayings from Aristotle
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
5 wisdom & wit from Patricia Highsmith
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
9 quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
29 thoughts from W. Somerset Maugham
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
7 more views 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 other wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
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
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
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 other wisdom & wit from William James
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
2 more views from David Seabury
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
7 thoughts 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 more views from Erma Bombeck
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
33 quotes 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 more thoughts 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 quotes from Peter De Vries
Gags die, humor doesn't.
4 other thoughts from Jack Benny
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 wisdom & wit from Langston Hughes
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
2 more quotes from Florenz Ziegfeld
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
50 sayings from Robert Frost
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
8 sayings from Malcolm Muggeridge
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
5 other quotes from Agnes Repplier
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
12 other wisdom & wit from George Herbert
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
6 more views from Leo Rosten
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
5 other sayings 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 more sayings from Harry S. Truman
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
13 more views 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 quotes from Max Frisch
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
43 other quotes from Alexander Pope
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
3 more 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 other thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Hattie McDaniel
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
21 more 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 other quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
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 other quotes from Lionel Trilling
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
19 other wisdom & wit 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
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
19 thoughts from E. B. White
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
3 quotes from Don Herold