humor Quotes

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.
William Davis

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

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.

Humor is a universal language.
Joel Goodman

After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.
Bill Kelly

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

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

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

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

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

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.

Humor is reason gone mad.

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.

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

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







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