Humor Quotes

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

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.

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

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

I've got a great sense of humor.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.

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

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

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

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.