Humor Quotes

A joke is a very serious thing.

Winston Churchill



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



Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain



Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James



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



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



A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher



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



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 pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey



Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon



Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields



The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle



There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby



Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright



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



Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx



When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck



Humor is reason gone mad.
Groucho Marx



My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
Emo Philips



Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes



A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin



Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White



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.
Christopher Morley



Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov



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