26 Great Quotes About Humor
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
--T. S. Eliot
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
--A. Whitney Brown
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
--Bill Nye
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
--Horace Walpole
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
--Colette
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
--Dick Clark
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
--Edward De Bono
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.
--Aristotle
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
--Hugh Elliott
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
--James Thurber
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
--James Thurber
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
--John Kenneth Galbraith
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
--Charlie Chaplin
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
--Lewis Mumford
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
--Mark Twain
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
--Mel Brooks
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
--E. B. White
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
--Peter Ustinov
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
--Mary Hirsch
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
--Pico Iyer
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
--Robert Benchley
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
--Salma Hayek
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
--Mel Brooks
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
--Larry Gelbart
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Post a CommentThe wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
--James Thurber
This is my favorite.
I flucuate between thinking and feeling. Come to think of it, I do not think I have ever heard a joke about father-in-laws. Do know, however a sister and her husband did turn a not-so-shinning moment of my dad's into a running joke.
Excellent quotes
these were fun.
Great comedic quotes.
great quotes!
Reading those makes you realize that many people don't understand comedy, but the world's great minds have it all figured out.
Great collection of quotes.
Fantastic article. Thanks for sharing these quotes.
Humor, what a beautiful thing :)