The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
10 more quotes 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 quotes from Sinclair Lewis
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 more sayings 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 has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
6 other quotes from Lana Turner
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
33 thoughts from Erma Bombeck
Gags die, humor doesn't.
4 more quotes from Jack Benny
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
19 thoughts from Alfred North Whitehead
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
7 more views from Langston Hughes
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
8 quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
2 thoughts from Florenz Ziegfeld
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
50 wisdom & wit from Robert Frost
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
12 other quotes from George Herbert
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
5 quotes from Agnes Repplier
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
5 wisdom & wit from Agnes Repplier
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
6 quotes from Leo Rosten
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
43 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 other views from Max Frisch
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
26 quotes from Harry S. Truman
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
13 more thoughts from Fred Allen
I think I have always had a little humor.
53 more quotes from Marilyn Monroe
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 views from Hattie McDaniel
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
21 more views 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 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
2 quotes from Mark Van Doren
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
3 thoughts from Don Herold
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
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
19 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
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
22 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Samuel Richardson
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
3 thoughts from Robertson Davies
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
10 wisdom & wit from Robert Benchley
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
2 sayings from Shel Silverstein
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
9 other wisdom & wit from J. B. Priestley
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
19 quotes 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 quotes from Alice Meynell
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
6 quotes 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 other quotes from William Temple
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
8 quotes from Thomas Browne
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 more quotes from Groucho Marx
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
29 thoughts from Groucho Marx
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
24 more sayings from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
24 more views from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 views from Konrad Lorenz
A joke is a very serious thing.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
2 other quotes from Eric Sevareid
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
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
19 other quotes from Jonathan Swift
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
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
98 more quotes from Mark Twain
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
11 other thoughts from Manuel Puig
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
7 other sayings from Flip Wilson
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
58 more 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 wisdom & wit 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 more thoughts from Flip Wilson
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
2 more thoughts from Steve Allen
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
14 other thoughts from James Thurber
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.
11 more wisdom & wit from Manuel Puig
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
30 views from Virginia Woolf
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
7 thoughts from Max Eastman
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
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 more quotes from Max Eastman
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
9 quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
24 other views from W. C. Fields
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
2 quotes from David Seabury
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 more quotes from Patricia Highsmith
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 quotes 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 quotes from William Arthur Ward
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
29 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham