Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
7 wisdom & wit from Flip Wilson
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
58 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle
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
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 views from James Thurber
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
2 wisdom & wit from Steve Allen
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
14 more views from James Thurber
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.
11 more quotes from Manuel Puig
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
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
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
7 thoughts from Max Eastman
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 other views from Max Eastman
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
30 views from Virginia Woolf
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
9 quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
5 quotes from Patricia Highsmith
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
24 other quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
24 quotes from W. C. Fields
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 sayings from William James
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
14 sayings from William Arthur Ward
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
2 thoughts from David Seabury
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
7 more quotes from Langston Hughes
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
6 other quotes from Sinclair Lewis
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 views from George Jean Nathan
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
19 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
7 more quotes from Langston Hughes
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
Gags die, humor doesn't.
4 other views 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 more views from Peter De Vries
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 sayings from Lana Turner
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
33 more sayings from Erma Bombeck
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
2 more quotes from Florenz Ziegfeld
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
50 more views from Robert Frost
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
8 quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
12 quotes from George Herbert
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
6 wisdom & wit from Leo Rosten
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
5 quotes from Agnes Repplier
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
5 thoughts from Agnes Repplier
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
13 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 other quotes from Harry S. Truman
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
43 other 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 quotes from Max Frisch
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
I think I have always had a little humor.
53 thoughts from Marilyn Monroe
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
21 quotes from Mignon McLaughlin
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
3 more quotes 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 quotes 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 sayings from Mark Van Doren
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
19 more quotes from E. B. White
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
3 sayings from Don Herold
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
19 other sayings from E. B. White
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
8 quotes 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 quotes from Lionel Trilling
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
3 other wisdom & wit from Robertson Davies
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
22 other views 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 more quotes from Samuel Richardson
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
3 thoughts 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 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 other wisdom & wit from William Howard Taft
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 other quotes from J. B. Priestley
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
19 views from H. G. Wells
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
6 other quotes from William Temple
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
24 more thoughts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
29 wisdom & wit from Groucho Marx
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
8 quotes from Thomas Browne
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
100 other sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
4 views from Lin Yutang
Humor is reason gone mad.
29 quotes from Groucho Marx
A joke is a very serious thing.
74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
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
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
98 thoughts from Mark Twain
We do not take humor seriously enough.
2 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 sayings 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 quotes from Eric Sevareid
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain