
Humor quotes:
- "A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone ..."
By: Paul Gauguin - "If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny? "
By: Casey Affleck - "I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. "
By: Edward Albee - "The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an ..."
By: Jason Alexander - "Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. "
By: Steve Allen - "Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his ..."
By: Tim Allen - "It's rare to find parts where you see two women who relate to each other ..."
By: Debbie Allen - "Star Wars has all the color, the humor, the action, the monsters and lots of ..."
By: Kevin J. Anderson - "The secret to humor is surprise. "
By: Aristotle - "I guess having two kids who are bright and articulate and have great humor and ..."
By: Bea Arthur - "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense ..."
By: Francis Bacon - "I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans ..."
By: Antonio Banderas - "If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense ..."
By: Kate Beckinsale - "If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humor was so ..."
By: Kate Beckinsale - "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted ..."
By: Henry Ward Beecher - "I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. "
By: Max Beerbohm - "If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an ..."
By: Don Bluth - "Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's ..."
By: Erma Bombeck - "There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and ..."
By: Erma Bombeck - "When humor goes, there goes civilization. "
By: Erma Bombeck - "It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it ..."
By: Edward de Bono - "Humor is just another defense against the universe. "
By: Mel Brooks - "Humor comes from self-confidence. "
By: Rita Mae Brown - "I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor. "
By: Alton Brown - "Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. "
By: Thomas Browne - "All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, ..."
By: Lenny Bruce - "If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A ..."
By: Enid Bagnold - "I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to ..."
By: Silvio Berlusconi - "Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic ..."
By: Victor Borge - "I'd like to do, you know, a lighter film with a beautiful girl and an ..."
By: Adrien Brody - "That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at ..."
By: A. Whitney Brown - "I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think ..."
By: Sandra Bullock - "The new one is a lightweight, humorous thing. But we worked hard on it. It ..."
By: Eddie Campbell - "I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous. "
By: Max Cannon
- "It deals with the things people really do but they don't want to admit that ..."
By: Max Cannon - "You will admit that at least 40 percent of any vote in a Democratic race ..."
By: Tucker Carlson - "Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. "
By: Thomas Carlyle - "True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not ..."
By: Thomas Carlyle - "There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ..."
By: Miguel de Cervantes - "When I was a kid, my favorite Oriole was Rick Dempsey. I just loved the ..."
By: Josh Charles - "A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, ..."
By: Lord Chesterfield - "Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. "
By: Lord Chesterfield - "Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke ..."
By: Dick Clark - "I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a ..."
By: Patricia Clarkson - "I was never girlish. My sense of humor was never quite the fit. My voice ..."
By: Patricia Clarkson - "No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. "
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. "
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "Total absence of humor renders life impossible. "
By: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette - "Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the ..."
By: Robert Collier - "I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. ..."
By: Chris Cooper - "There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we ..."
By: Bill Cosby - "You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, ..."
By: Bill Cosby - "I always thought that the Mime Troupe was the most zany and the most anarchic ..."
By: Peter Coyote - "We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. "
By: Bobby Clarke - "Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. "
By: Irvin S. Cobb - "Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger ..."
By: James Cone - "A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull ..."
By: Courteney Cox - "I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of ..."
By: Jim Dale - "Well, I think it's important to always have a sense of humor. "
By: Frank Darabont - "The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. "
By: Robertson Davies - "That's the interesting thing about becoming a father. Suddenly you universally have something in common ..."
By: Johnny Depp - "I try to keep some humor in it, and some lightness. "
By: Neil Diamond - "My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able ..."
By: Karen Duffy - "It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached ..."
By: Freeman Dyson - "The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five ..."
By: William Davis - "Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. "
By: Max Eastman - "It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have ..."
By: Max Eastman
- "The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. "
By: Umberto Eco - "Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was ..."
By: Will Eisner - "Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old ..."
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson - "A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the ..."
By: Clifton Paul Fadiman - "The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a ..."
By: Geraldine A. Ferraro - "While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because ..."
By: J. Randy Forbes - "Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the ..."
By: Bill Forsyth - "I didn't want to do a Family Ties type show. It never really represented my ..."
By: Michael J. Fox - "Humor is the most engaging cowardice. "
By: Robert Frost - "And I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They ..."
By: Colin Firth - "Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in ..."
By: John Kenneth Galbraith - "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. "
By: Mohandas Gandhi - "My sense of humor that I've had always is that I was the first to ..."
By: Leif Garrett - "A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend ..."
By: Elizabeth Gaskell - "I believe Regis and I caught on because we saw what's mundane in life could, ..."
By: Kathie Lee Gifford - "We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of ..."
By: Martha Graham - "Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at ..."
By: Joe Grant - "I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense ..."
By: Linda Gray - "Then you sit down and really check the person out and oftentimes you think, Yeah, ..."
By: Brian Austin Green - "A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor. "
By: Kathy Griffin - "Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls ..."
By: Romain Gary - "One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. "
By: Larry Gelbart - "A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to ..."
By: Barbara Gordon - "But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there. "
By: P. J. Harvey - "I think I've got a pretty good sense of humor. "
By: P. J. Harvey - "I love the gay community. Naturally having been in this business since I was 17, ..."
By: Florence Henderson - "In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. "
By: George Herbert - "I'm a lot like Gabby, always trying to find the humor in things. "
By: Dana Hill - "Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. "
By: Langston Hughes - "Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air ..."
By: Langston Hughes - "The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it ..."
By: Karen Hughes - "I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor. "
By: Anjelica Huston - "By bouncing a word, visually, you're putting in an inflection, you know, the way a ..."
By: Johnny Hart