Humour Quotes

Good humour is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

Kate Beckinsale

Bad humour is an evasion of reality; good humour is an acceptance of it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Humour is also a way of saying something serious.

T S Eliot

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

James Thurber

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Humour is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Max Eastman

The secret to humour is surprise.

Aristotle

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.

Taki

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
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