Humor Quotes - page 3

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. (Mark Twain)
I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff. View quote
Robert Orben
Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it. View quote
Robert Orben
Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years. View quote
Robert Orben
Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it. View quote
Robert Orben
President Ford used humor a great deal. View quote
Robert Orben
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. View quote
Aristotle
The secret to humor is surprise. View quote
Aristotle
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it. View quote
Manuel Puig
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. (Manuel Puig)
It's very hard to write humor. View quote
Mark Strand
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. View quote
Patricia Highsmith
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives. View quote
Rebecca Wells
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth. View quote
Stan Laurel
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. View quote
Bill Cosby
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. View quote
Bill Cosby
Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there. View quote
Keegan-Michael Key
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character. View quote
Suzanne Vega
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really. View quote
Fay Wray
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. (Allen Klein)
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way. View quote
Allen Klein
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it. View quote
Allen Klein
But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something. View quote
Dabney Coleman
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire. View quote
David Zucker