Humor Quotes

"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile"

"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it"

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

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road"

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

"Wit is the lowest form of humor"

"My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing"

"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles"

"Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse"

"A joke is a very serious thing"

"Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time"

"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"

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

"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain"

"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun"

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

"Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger"

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

"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"

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

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious"

"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself"

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

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

"Gags die, humor doesn't"

"All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it"

"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility"

"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"

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

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