Humor Quotes

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Humor Quotes:
"Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it." - Bill Cosby

"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is." - Francis Bacon

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." - William James

"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it." - Salma Hayek

Humor Quotes:
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself."
- Ethel Barrymore

"After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor." - Bill Kelly

"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end." - Sid Caesar

"They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure." - Ernest Hemingway

Humor Quotes:
"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life." - Hugh Sidey

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." - W. H. Auden

"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place." - Mark Twain

"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

Humor Quotes:
"I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?"
- Jerry Seinfeld

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" - George Carlin

"Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them." - Lewis Mumford

"A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused." - Shirley Maclaine

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." - Will Rogers

Humor Quotes:
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." - Charlie Chaplin

"A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income."
- Lord Chesterfield

"Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises." - Erma Bombeck

"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness." - Ellie Katz

Humor Quotes:
"A rich man's joke is always funny." - Thomas Edward Brown

"Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth." - Victor Borge

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