|
|
|
Humor is a reminder that no
matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. —
Taki
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 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 results when society says you can't scratch certain things in
public, but they itch in public. — Tom Walsh
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
Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. — Author Unknown
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. — Mark Twain
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. — James Thurber
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
After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep
the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor. — Bill Kelly, "Mordillo"
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back
alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. — Peter
De Vries
Humor is just another defense against the universe. — Mel Brooks
Humor is reason gone mad. — Groucho Marx
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. — Mignon
McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. — Peter Ustinov
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a
little curlicue at the end. — Sid Caesar
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
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without
drawing blood. — Mary Hirsch
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five
seconds and think for ten minutes. — William Davis
Many a true word is spoken in jest. — English Proverb
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some
humor in it. — Frank A. Clark
Above all else: go out with a sense of humor. It 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
Let your humour always be good-humour, in the double sense of the
phrase: if it comes from a bad humour, it is almost sure to be bad
humour. — Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at
Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she
is involved in tragic events. — E.T. "Cy" Eberhart
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, London Times, 3 January 1984
Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I
keep my sense of humor and I stay alive. — Abe Burrows
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's
superiority to all that befalls him. — Roman Gary
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It
is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,
essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long,
long time between James Thurbers. — Leo Rosten
 |
 |
Quotations about Humor