Famous Quotes About Humor

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.  

Tom Walsh

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

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

Peter De Vries

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.  

George Saintsbury

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.  

William Davis

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

Thomas W. Higginson

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road.  

Henry Ward Beecher

There is more logic in humor than in anything else.  Because, you see, humor is truth.  

Victor Borge

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.  

Roman Gary

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself.  I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive. 

Abe Burrows

After God created the world, He made man and woman.  Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.  

Bill Kelly

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