Humor Quotes

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman

Pain, Taking, Instinct

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson

Fun, Sick, Become

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
Bernard Williams

Strange, Same, Sense

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

Smile, Society, May

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries

Him, Another, Again

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

Sense, Fine, Ridiculous

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

Worry, Seems, Analyze

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

Nothing, Off, False

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono

Human, Brain, Far

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis

Live, Sense, Saving

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Thomas W. Higginson

Thought, Away, Seems

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank A. Clark

Best, Problem, Next

Puns are a form of humor with words.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang

Change, Character, Thought

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 tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Thomas W. Higginson

Government, Nothing, Words

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson

Sense, Against, Fortune

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

Great, Men, Mountain

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb

Head, Tragedy, Standing

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

Life, Laughter, Through

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf

Tongue, Foreign, Gifts

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark Twain

Live, Both, Forever

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve

Intelligence, Woman, Same

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Truth, Real

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck

Hurt, Pain, Laughter

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