546 Quotes Regarding Humor


No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.
Kesha

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.
William Glasser

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.
Rachael Ray

Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
Malcolm Muggeridge

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
Colin Firth

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.
Peter Jennings

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.
Lynda Barry

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
James Thurber

I've got a great sense of humor.
Anthony Hopkins

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
Anne Lamott

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
Joan Jett

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.
Louis C. K.

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
John Malkovich

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Miguel de Cervantes