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Humor Quotes

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill



A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Henry Ward Beecher



A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin



A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman



A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter
on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Hugh Sidey



A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor,
for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Jessamyn West



A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps
as you walk the tightrope of life.

William Arthur Ward



Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and
the frog dies of it.

E. B. White



Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little
curlicue at the end.

Sid Caesar



Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov



Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different
speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

William James



Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy
but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain



Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas W. Higginson



Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly
understanding.

Agnes Repplier



Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their
earthly pedestals.

Agnes Repplier



Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks



Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain



Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb



Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness
that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most
oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley



Humor is reason gone mad.
Groucho Marx



Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in
gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

John Kenneth Galbraith



Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations.
There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Victor Borge



Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten



Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman



I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee



I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank Howard Clark



If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mohandas Gandhi



If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life,
choose a sense of humor.

Jennifer Jones



Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not;
a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Francis Bacon



Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal,
or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells
them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

Thomas W. Higginson



One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart



The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive
and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Peter De Vries



There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as
an habitual sense of humor.

Thomas W. Higginson



This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character
of our thought.

Lin Yutang



When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems
an impertinence.

Thomas W. Higginson



When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck



Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope



You can turn painful situations around through laughter.
If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby