Humor Quotes

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

- Frank Howard Clark

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

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 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

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

- Sid Caesar

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

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

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

- Lin Yutang

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