FAMOUS HUMOR QUOTES
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Don Herold
A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
Chevy Chase
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 pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
Doug Larson
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
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
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
Fred Allen
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
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
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright
Gags die, humor doesn't.
Jack Benny
Don Herold
A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
Chevy Chase
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 pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
Doug Larson
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
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
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
Fred Allen
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
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
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright
Gags die, humor doesn't.
Jack Benny
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas W. Higginson
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
Allen Klein
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier
Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
Allen Klein
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.
James Thurber
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Langston Hughes
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
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Flip Wilson
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas W. Higginson
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
Allen Klein
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier
Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
Allen Klein
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.
James Thurber
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Langston Hughes
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
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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 have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank Howard Clark
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mohandas Gandhi
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
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
Emo Philips
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
Puns are a form of humor with words.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields
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
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
Robert Benchley
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
Bern Williams
Edward Albee
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank Howard Clark
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mohandas Gandhi
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
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
Emo Philips
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
Puns are a form of humor with words.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields
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
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
Robert Benchley
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
Bern Williams
When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Thomas W. Higginson
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce
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
Thomas W. Higginson
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce
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
A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
Percy Ross
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
David Riesman
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Constance Rourke
But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.
Werner Klemperer
Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.
Sergio Aragones
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Jerome K. Jerome
I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.
Toby Young
I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.
Ron Glass
I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.
Max Cannon
I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
Ted Lange
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
Alan Thicke
It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.
Jimmy Swaggart
Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.
George Thorogood
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
Mike Figgis
There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.
Mose Allison
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
Piers Anthony
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
Ann Beattie
Percy Ross
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
David Riesman
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Constance Rourke
But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.
Werner Klemperer
Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.
Sergio Aragones
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Jerome K. Jerome
I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.
Toby Young
I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.
Ron Glass
I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.
Max Cannon
I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
Ted Lange
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
Alan Thicke
It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.
Jimmy Swaggart
Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.
George Thorogood
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
Mike Figgis
There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.
Mose Allison
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
Piers Anthony
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
Ann Beattie
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