humor Quotes

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

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

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.

Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations.
Ron Dentinger

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

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

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.
Tom Walsh

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
Abe Burrows

I will find humor in my everyday life by looking for people I can laugh at

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

Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment - a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.

Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?

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

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.







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