Humor Quotes

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

Even the gods love jokes.

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages, I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burned or hanged.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that’s scarcely felt or seen.