Humor Quotes

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

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

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

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

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

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.

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

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.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

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

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

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

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

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

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

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

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

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

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

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.

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

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

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

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

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.

I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.

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

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

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

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

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.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Humor is reason gone mad.

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

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

It's a funny old world.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

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

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

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

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

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

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.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

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

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

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

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.

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

A joke's a very serious thing.

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

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

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

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

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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.

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

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

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

Laughter is an instant vacation.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

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

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

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.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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

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