Humor Quotes

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson

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

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

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

Humor distorts nothing, only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier

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

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 by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono

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

Humor is just another defense against universe.
Mel Brooks

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

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb

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.
Christopher Morley

Humor is reason gone mad.
Groucho Marx

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.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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.
Victor Borge

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman