humor
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
8 other sayings from William Makepeace Thackeray
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
3 quotes from Don Herold
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
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
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
19 quotes from E. B. White
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
3 more 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 more sayings from Samuel Richardson
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
22 other quotes from Samuel Richardson
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
2 quotes from Shel Silverstein
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
9 quotes from J. B. Priestley
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
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 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 more thoughts from Alice Meynell
Humor is reason gone mad.
29 other sayings from Groucho Marx
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
6 other sayings from William Temple
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
24 quotes 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 more views from William Temple
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
24 other quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
4 other quotes from Lin Yutang
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
8 quotes from Thomas Browne
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 views from Mark Twain
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
2 quotes from Eric Sevareid
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
19 other thoughts from Jonathan Swift
A joke is a very serious thing.
74 other views from Winston Churchill
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
98 sayings from Mark Twain
We do not take humor seriously enough.
2 sayings from Konrad Lorenz
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
98 other quotes from Mark Twain
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
98 views from Mark Twain
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
14 sayings from James Thurber
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
11 more views 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
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
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.
11 more wisdom & wit from Manuel Puig
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 more wisdom & wit from James Thurber
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
2 thoughts from Steve Allen
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
24 other sayings from Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 other quotes from Patricia Highsmith
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
24 views 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 sayings from Frank Moore Colby
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
9 thoughts from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
29 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Max Eastman
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
2 thoughts from David Seabury
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 views from William James
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
30 other quotes from Virginia Woolf
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
7 quotes 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 views from William Arthur Ward
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 quotes from Francis Bacon
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
33 other views 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 quotes from George Jean Nathan
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
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 views 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 more quotes from Sinclair Lewis
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
10 more sayings from Peter De Vries
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
7 wisdom & wit from Langston Hughes
Gags die, humor doesn't.
4 other quotes from Jack Benny
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
19 other sayings from Alfred North Whitehead
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
2 sayings 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 other quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
5 other quotes from Agnes Repplier
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
5 more sayings from Agnes Repplier
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
6 other thoughts from Leo Rosten
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
12 wisdom & wit from George Herbert
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
26 wisdom & wit from Harry S. Truman
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
13 other 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 quotes from Max Frisch
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
43 sayings from Alexander Pope
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
3 sayings from Irvin S. Cobb
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
5 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 other quotes from Mark Van Doren
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
21 sayings from Mignon McLaughlin
I think I have always had a little humor.
53 more wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Henry Ward Beecher