Quotes

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

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.
-James Thurber

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
-Max Eastman

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.
-Samuel Johnson

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

Humor is the sunshine of the mind.
-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.
-Thomas Jefferson

A pun is the lowest form of humor - unless you thought of it yourself.
-Doug Larson

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
-Robertson Davies

An ill-humored man is a prisoner at the mercy of an enemy from whom he can never escape.
-Muslih-uddin Sadi

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

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
-James Thurber

A wife is essential to great longevity, she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.
-Charles Reade

Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events.
-E.T. 'Cy' Eberhart

There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
-Victor Borge

I don't want to start Any blasphemous rumors But I think that God's Got a sick sense of humor And when I die I expect to find him laughing.
-Depeche Mode

Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.
-Anonymous Author

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.
-Anonymous Author

Humor prevents a 'hardening of the attitudes'.
-Anonymous Author

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.
-James Thurber

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.
-Mark Twain

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
-Ellie Katz

Humor is a universal language.
-Anonymous Author

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
-Thomas Browne, Sr.

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.
-Steve Allen

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.
-Taki

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion.
-Henry Louis Mencken

Managing to have a sense of humor makes it a lot easier to manage people.
-Steve Wilson

We do not take humor seriously enough.
-Konrad Lorenz

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison
-Lord Chesterfield

A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
-Roman Gary

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
-Roman Gary

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

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.
-E. M. Forster

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.
-Josh Billings

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

Learning humor is like learning math - practice makes perfect.
-Jim Pelley

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
-Oscar Wilde