Humor Quotes

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber

Emotional, Chaos, Remembered

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

Leaving, American, Wit

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Langston Hughes

Laughing, Ought

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 at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Person, Attention, Value

Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope

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

Friendly, Tolerance, Less

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

Another, Universe, Against

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones

Life, Through, Sense

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
Doug Larson

Yourself, Thought, Unless

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.
Victor Borge

Truth, Else, Between

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Don Herold

Good, Bad, Person

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

Understand, Sense, Joke

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
Simon Wiesenthal

Smile, Situation, Weapon

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
Chevy Chase

Laugh, Surprise, Physical

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.
James Thurber

Greatest, Serious, Natural

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

Knowledge, Worth, Wit

Gags die, humor doesn't.
Jack Benny

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye

Human, Irony, Everywhere

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
Fred Allen

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar

Truth, End, Put

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
Allen Klein

Help, Situation, Laughing

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
Don Rickles

Attitude, Study, Comedy

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
Allen Klein

Pain, Around, Makes

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