546 Quotes Regarding Humor


One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Thomas W. Higginson

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

Puns are a form of humor with words.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Thomas W. Higginson

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

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

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

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.
Bill Cosby

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

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark Twain

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.
Catherine Deneuve

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
Eminem

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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I think I have always had a little humor.
Marilyn Monroe

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost