Famous Quotes about life: HUMOR Quotes

Humor Quotes collection

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
A humor quote by Edward Albee

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
A humor quote by Francis Bacon

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

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
A humor quote by Erma Bombeck

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.
A humor quote by Victor Borge

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
A humor quote by Mel Brooks

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
A humor quote by Sid Caesar

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
A humor quote by Frank A. Clark

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
A humor quote by Irvin S. Cobb

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

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
A humor quote by Max Eastman

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
A humor quote by Clifton Paul Fadiman

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.
A humor quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
A humor quote by Mohandas Gandhi

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
A humor quote by Larry Gelbart

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
A humor quote by Thomas W. Higginson

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
A humor quote by Thomas W. Higginson

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
A humor quote by Thomas W. Higginson

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
A humor quote by Thomas W. Higginson

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

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
A humor quote by Jennifer Jones

Humor is reason gone mad.
A humor quote by Groucho Marx