Humor Quotes

1. A day without laughter is a day wasted.

^{Charlie Chaplin}

2. Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

^{Mark Twain}

3. Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

^{W. C. Fields}

4. Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

^{Steven Wright}

5. Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

^{Will Rogers}

6. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

^{e. e. cummings}

7. 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}

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

^{Mahatma Gandhi}

9. From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

^{Dr. Seuss}

10. Laughter is an instant vacation.

^{Milton Berle}

11. There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

^{Erma Bombeck}

12. I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

^{Audrey Hepburn}

13. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

^{Langston Hughes}

14. 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}

15. I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

^{Anne Wilson Schaef}

16. The secret to humor is surprise.

^Aristotle

17. Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

^{E. B. White}

18. 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}

19. Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

^{James Thurber}

20. Humor is just another defense against the universe.

^{Mel Brooks}

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

^{Clive James}

22. Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

^{Peter Ustinov}

23. It’s a funny old world.

^{Margaret Thatcher}

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

^{Mignon McLaughlin}

25. Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

^{Victor Borge}

26. Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

^{Aung San Suu Kyi}

27. Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

^{Grenville Kleiser}

28. It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it’s just hilarious.

^{Bill Hicks}

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

^{Edward de Bono}

30. The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

^{Lou Holtz}

31. Humor is reason gone mad.

^{Groucho Marx}

32. You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

^{W. Somerset Maugham}

33. 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}

34. Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.

^{Ellen DeGeneres}

35. Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

^{Sid Caesar}

36. I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

^{Michael J. Fox}

37. I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

^{Bob Hope}

38. It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

^{Max Eastman}

39. The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

^Moliere

40. You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

^{Allen Klein}

41. 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}

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

^{Virginia Woolf}

43. If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

^{Jennifer Jones}

44. Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

^{Simon Wiesenthal}

45. I’m not funny. What I am is brave.

^{Lucille Ball}

46. Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

^{Washington Irving}

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

^{Edward Albee}

48. I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

^{Frank A. Clark}

49. You can’t study comedy; it’s within you. It’s a personality. My humor is an attitude.

^{Don Rickles}

50. I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

^{Woody Allen}

51. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

^{Horace Walpole}

52. A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

^{Doug Larson}

53. Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don’t get sick you’re missing half the fun.

^{Flip Wilson}

54. Nothing like a little judicious levity.

^{Robert Louis Stevenson}