546 Quotes Regarding Humor


Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
Mason Cooley

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.
Dee Dee Myers

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

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.
Courteney Cox

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.
Chris Rock

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
Christopher Hitchens

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
Anne Wilson Schaef

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Jonathan Swift

I am often the brunt of my own humor.
Charles R. Swindoll

Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. Wells

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative fight, flee - or laugh.
Robert Orben

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
Paul McCartney

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
David Herbert Lawrence

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
Victoria Beckham

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.
Jennifer Aniston

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.
Wentworth Miller

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
Margaret Cho