| Quote 54 | Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. |
| Quote 298 | A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. |
| Quote 393 | Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
- Groucho Marx |
| Quote 460 | A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a ... |
| Quote 1003 | Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds... |
| Quote 1045 | Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. |
| Quote 1210 | A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill |
| Quote 1226 | Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain |
| Quote 1388 | Humor is just another defense against the universe. |
| Quote 1712 | Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. |
| Quote 2102 | A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. |
| Quote 2253 | Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. |
| Quote 2269 | A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. |
| Quote 2443 | Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. |
| Quote 2667 | Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. |
| Quote 2922 | Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. |
| Quote 3063 | The secret to humor is surprise.
- Aristotle |
| Quote 3126 | A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. |
| Quote 3536 | Humor is reason gone mad.
- Groucho Marx |
| Quote 3573 | A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. |
| Quote 3600 | You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. |
| Quote 4003 | There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God. |
| Quote 4076 | Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. |
| Quote 4088 | Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. |
| Quote 7636 | Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. |
| Quote 8084 | My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing. |
| Quote 8102 | A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. |
| Quote 8148 | Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope |
| Quote 8227 | Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. |
| Quote 8230 | 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 te... |
| Quote 8263 | Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. |
| Quote 8278 | Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value a... |
| Quote 8332 | Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. |
| Quote 8659 | The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. |
| Quote 8704 | One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. |
| Quote 8708 | Puns are a form of humor with words.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante |
| Quote 8732 | Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. |
| Quote 8841 | Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. |
| Quote 9120 | Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. |
| Quote 9138 | A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. |
| Quote 9252 | Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. |
| Quote 9310 | All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it. |
| Quote 9759 | Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. |
| Quote 9941 | When humor goes, there goes civilization.
- Erma Bombeck |
| Quote 9949 | What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. |
| Quote 10138 | Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Beca... |
| Quote 10242 | There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. |
| Quote 10368 | Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. |
| Quote 10386 | Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. |
| Quote 10819 | I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. |
| Quote 11833 | When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence. |
| Quote 11839 | There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. |
| Quote 11883 | In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. |
| Quote 11894 | Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. |
| Quote 11948 | I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. |
| Quote 12015 | Gags die, humor doesn't.
- Steven Wright |
| Quote 12602 | Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. |
| Quote 12639 | This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. |
| Quote 13235 | If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. |
| Quote 13524 | Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. |
| Quote 13809 | Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. |
| Quote 13826 | If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. |
| Quote 13867 | The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. |