Humor Quotes

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

H. L. Mencken

What makes you think the whole world revolves around you?! my mother said, as I slowly rotated to maintain eye contact.

John Alejandro King

The man who said in 1899: Everything that can be invented has been invented - technically, wasn't he right at the time?

John Alejandro King, The Covert

Remember, anyone can juggle for a second.

John Alejandro King

The problem with those bumper stickers that warn against tailgating, is that I have to get really close to the person's car to read them.

John Alejandro King, The Covert

His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.

Graham Greene

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Mahatma Gandhi

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

But the deep background that lies behind and beyond what we call humor is revealed only to the few who, by instinct or by effort, have given thought to it. The world's humor, in its best and greatest sense, is perhaps the highest product of our civilization. Its basis lies in the deeper contrasts offered by life itself: the strange incongruity between our aspiration and our achievement, the eager and fretful anxieties of today that fade into nothingness tomorrow, the burning pain and the sharp sorrow that are softened in the gentle retrospect of time, till as we look back upon the course that has been traversed, we pass in view the panorama of our lives, as people in old age may recall, with mingled tears and smiles, the angry quarrels of their childhood. And here, in its larger aspect, humor is blended with pathos till the two are one, and represent, as they have in every age, the mingled heritage of tears and laughter that is our lot on earth.

Stephen Leacock

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Horace Walpole

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

Erma Bombeck

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

George Burns

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your step as you walk the tightrope of life.

William Arthur Ward

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - even poverty - you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

Berkeley Breathed

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

Colin Quinn

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

Justin Halpern

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Margaret Cho

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Frank Moore Colby

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

Florenz Ziegfeld