Humor Quotes

107. Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

^{David Hyde Pierce}

108. Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile.

^{J. B. Priestley}

109. There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

^{Thomas Wentworth Higginson}

110. The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

^{Peter De Vries}

111. Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger.

^{Allen Klein}

112. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

^{Maya Angelou}

113. Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

^{Allen Klein}

114. It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

^{Betty White}

115. Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.

^{Rashida Jones}

116. Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

^{William Makepeace Thackeray}

117. Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

^{Robert Collier}

118. Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

^{John Gerzema}

119. Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince – so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he’s no Prince Charming!

^{Anne Hathaway}

120. Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don’t have a sense of humor it just isn’t funny anymore.

^{Wavy Gravy}

121. Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

^{Madonna Ciccone}

122. My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

^{Bret Michaels}

123. Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

^{Sam Walton}

124. I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

^{Hunter S. Thompson}

125. If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

^{Teri Garr}

126. One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

^{Ralph Fiennes}

127. I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

^{Brian Eno}

128. My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented – he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

^{Angie Dickinson}

129. What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!

^{Joseph Pulitzer}

130. Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

^{Stan Laurel}

131. As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

^{Priscilla Presley}

132. The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

^{Franklin D. Roosevelt}

133. My wife is Swedish, so I’m familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It’s very dark and very deadpan.

^{Cory Barlog}

134. I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

^{Horatio Nelson}

135. Humor is to get us over terrible things.

^{Ricky Gervais}

136. Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

^{Dick Clark}

137. I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it’s never at the expense of the other guy.

^{Bob Uecker}

138. In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

^{Thomas Jefferson}

139. Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

^{Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield}

140. You’ve got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

^{Lance Bass}

141. Humor and laughter – not necessarily derogatory derision – are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously – for fear of dying of boredom.

^{Marcel Duchamp}

142. Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

^{Arlo Guthrie}

143. Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.

^{Jami Gertz}

144. I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

^{William Gilmore Simms}

145. Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

^{Harry S Truman}

146. We do not take humor seriously enough.

^{Konrad Lorenz}

147. I wasn’t shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

^{Tyler, The Creator}

148. People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

^{Bob Newhart}

149. If you’re feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance – and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you’ve ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.

^{Salma Hayek}

150. I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He’s got such a wicked sense of humor.

^Moby

151. I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity.

^{Nipsey Russell}

152. The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

^{Charles Bukowski}

153. A woman who knows that she doesn’t have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.

^{Benedict Cumberbatch}

154. Christina Hoff Sommers is a self-identified feminist and registered Democrat with a Ph.D. in philosophy and a wicked sense of humor.

^{Bari Weiss}

155. Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

^{Adam Smith}

156. Don’t wish me happiness – I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all.

^{Anne Morrow Lindbergh}