Humor Quotes
Enjoy these humor quotes demonstrating how important humor is for our emotional health and resilience. We often underestimate how much humor can improve our outlook and perspective.
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. Mark Twain
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
Humor is reason gone mad. Groucho Marx
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. Thomas Carlyle
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
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? Jerry Seinfeld
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. Ludwig Wittgenstein
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously. Oscar Wilde
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
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. Irvin S. Cobb
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
I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy. John Cleese
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. Eric Sevareid
Comedy is acting out optimism. Robin Williams
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
When humor goes, there goes civilization. Erma Bombeck
Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. Anonymous
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. Mahatma Gandhi
Humor is just another defense against the universe. Mel Brooks
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
There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. Victor Borge
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. Bill Nye
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. Lewis Mumford
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. Mark Twain
Life is a joke. The only way to survive it is to find the right punch line. Becky Alunan
It's hard to create humor because of the unfair competition from the real world. Peter's Almanac