Humor Quotes

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.

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.

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