Humor Quotes

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

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.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Puns are a form of humor with words.