Humor Quotes

55. Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

^{Ambrose Bierce}

56. A joke’s a very serious thing.

^{Charles Churchill}

57. Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

^{George Eliot}

58. This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

^{Lin Yutang}

59. Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

^{Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel}

60. A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

^{Allen Klein}

61. Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

^{Robert Frost}

62. Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

^{Jimmy Buffett}

63. Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

^{Leo Rosten}

64. Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.

^{Bill Nye}

65. We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

^{Bil Keane}

66. Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

^{Mary Kay Blakely}

67. Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

^{Mark Twain}

68. Gags die, humor doesn’t.

^{Jack Benny}

69. 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}

70. I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

^{Rainn Wilson}

71. Laughter is involuntary. If it’s funny you laugh.

^{Tom Lehrer}

72. What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

^{Bernard Williams}

73. I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

^{Christopher Hitchens}

74. A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.

^{Clifton Fadiman}

75. The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

^{Oliver Goldsmith}

76. If it gets laughs, it’s funny.

^{Rachel Dratch}

77. One doesn’t have a sense of humor. It has you.

^{Larry Gelbart}

78. 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}

79. 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}

80. You can’t be funny if you don’t have good material.

^{Matt LeBlanc}

81. Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

^{Agnes Repplier}

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

^{Robert Benchley}

83. I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

^{W. Somerset Maugham}

84. Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

^{Allen Klein}

85. Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

^{George Jean Nathan}

86. Puns are a form of humor with words.

^{Guillermo Cabrera Infante}

87. Humor comes from self-confidence.

^{Rita Mae Brown}

88. The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

^{Mark Twain}

89. Wit is the lowest form of humor.

^{Alexander Pope}

90. 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}

91. Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.

^{Langston Hughes}

92. If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

^{Paul Simon}

93. A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

^{Don Herold}

94. In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

^{George Herbert}

95. When humor goes, there goes civilization.

^{Erma Bombeck}

96. A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

^{Bob Hope}

97. Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

^{Max Eastman}

98. A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

^{Chevy Chase}

99. Impropriety is the soul of wit.

^{W. Somerset Maugham}

100. I’ve learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!

^{Debbie Gibson}

101. Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

^{Agnes Repplier}

102. All I know about humor is that I don’t know anything about it.

^{Fred Allen}

103. One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

^{Francoise Sagan}

104. Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

^{Irvin S. Cobb}

105. The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

^{Jacob Riis}

106. Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

^{Thomas Wentworth Higginson}