Humor Quotes

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

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

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

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

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

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

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

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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.

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

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.