Humor Quotes

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

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

Irvin S. Cobb

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

Humor is reason gone mad.

Groucho Marx

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Ellie Katz

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.

George Saintsbury

Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.

Arland Ussher

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

Frank A. Clark

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

Thomas W. Higginson

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Max Eastman

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Victor Borge

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Roman Gary