Humor Quotes

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities – a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

There are few doors through which liberality, joined with good humor, cannot find its way.

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.

We remember Will Rogers with gratitude and affection because he knew how to revive the spirit of laughter in hearts that had known too much of the distractions and anxieties of a busy world. His mission in life was to cheer, to comfort and to console. There was something infectious about his humour. His appeal […]

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

The muse of humor has once again looked down upon me, and found me worthy to carry out the deeds of her noble cause.

A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny. (Joseph Francis)

The greatest humor is born in various forms of adversity. Thus the bleakest, most self-deprecating humor has been provided by the people described by Arthur Koestler as ‘the nerve ends of mankind’. Over millennia and certainly within the century of the Holocaust, a completely disproportionate number of jokes, and of comedians to tell them have […]

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.