Humor Quotes

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. (Mark Twain)
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. View quote
Edward de Bono
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. View quote
James Thurber
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. View quote
Colette
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
When humor goes, there goes civilization. View quote
Erma Bombeck
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)
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. View quote
Langston Hughes
Humor is just another defense against the universe. View quote
Mel Brooks
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. View quote
Catherine Deneuve
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor. View quote
Ayn Rand
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. View quote
Freeman Dyson
Good humor makes all things tolerable. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. View quote
Robert Benchley
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. (Horace Walpole)
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. View quote
William Howard Taft
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. View quote
Francis Bacon
Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh