A day without Hunouer is a day wasted – Charlie Chaplin Humour Quotes
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
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide – Mahatma Gandhi
It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive – Anne Wilson Schaef
It’s probably the most important thing in a person – Audrey Hepburn
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life – William Arthur Ward
Humor is just another defense against the universe – Mel Brooks
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body
The Greatest Glory in Living Lies Not in Never Falling: Nelson Mandela
It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression
It is a business asset
It attracts and keeps friends
It lightens human burdens
It is the direct route to serenity and contentment – Grenville Kleiser
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious – Peter Ustinov
It’s always funny until someone gets hurt, Then it’s just hilarious – Bill Hicks
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
It’s a funny old world – Margaret Thatcher
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles – Mignon McLaughlin
A day without laughter is a day wasted – Charlie Chaplin

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor – Michael J Fox
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 – Christopher Morley
Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing – Mark Twain
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with – WC Fields
Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else – Will Rogers
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you – Langston Hughes
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog
Few people are interested and the frog dies of it – E B White
The secret to humor is surprise – Aristotle
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing – Clive James
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility – James Thurber
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival – Aung San Suu Kyi
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain – Edward de Bono
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood – Lou Holtz
Humor is reason gone mad – Groucho Marx
Comedy has to be based on truth, You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end – Sid Caesar
Humor is the most engaging cowardice – Robert Frost
Good planning is important, I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition , When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension – Edmund Hillary
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue – Virginia Woolf
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor – Jennifer Jones
You can’t study comedy; it’s within you It’s a personality, My humor is an attitude – Don Rickles
Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows With luck, success comes, too – Jimmy Buffett
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter – Francoise Sagan
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections – George Eliot
A day without laughter is a day wasted – Charlie Chaplin

Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does – Bill Nye
Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out – Ambrose Bierce
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is, Horace Walpole
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time – Steven Wright
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt – Erma Bombeck
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter – Cummings
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere – Dr Seuss
Laughter is an instant vacation – Milton Berle
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is – Francis Bacon
Laughter is the closest distance between two people – Victor Borge
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them, Humor teaches tolerance – W Somerset Maugham
I have seen what a laugh can do It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful
Bob Hope Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense
And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way
So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings – Ellen DeGeneres
I’m not funny , What I am is brave – Lucille Ball
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it – Allen Klein
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them – Moliere
I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice – Woody Allen
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight – Leo Rosten
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them – Simon Wiesenthal
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor – Edward Albee
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself – Doug Larson
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it – Frank A Clark
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor – Max Eastman
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment – Bil Keane
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way – Allen Klein
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn – Irvin S Cobb
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven – Mark Twain
Wit is the lowest form of humor – Alexander Pope
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it – Langston Hughes
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it – Don Herold
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself – Jessamyn West
Impropriety is the soul of wit – W Somerset Maugham
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing – Allen Klein
Humor brings insight and tolerance, Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding – Agnes Repplier
Lord knows everyone else does! Debbie Gibson Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile – J B Priestley
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything – Paul Simon
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world
Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak
Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up – Allen Klein
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies, If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful – Rashida Jones
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family – Madonna Ciccone
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image
What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives – Robert Collier
It’s your outlook on life that counts
If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives
And sometimes it can be a lifesaver – Betty White
A joke’s a very serious thing – Charles Churchill
Laughter is involuntary, If it’s funny you laugh – Tom Lehrer
I don’t think it‘s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor – Christopher Hitchens
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself – Clifton Fadiman
All I know about humor is that I don’t know anything about it – Fred Allen
Humor is a serious thing I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost – James Thurber
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals – Agnes Repplier
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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
Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn? Bob Hope What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor – Bernard Williams
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge – George Herbert
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor – George Jean Nathan
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully – Max Eastman

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance – Peter De Vries
Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger – Allen Klein
Puns are a form of humor with words – Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident – that is very sexy – but at the same time, he’s very kind to people – Nicole Scherzinger
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society – William Makepeace Thackeray
I think God has a tremendous sense of humor – Rainn Wilson
Nothing like a little judicious levity – Robert Louis Stevenson
Our humor turns our anger into a fine art – Mary Kay Blakely
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don’t get sick you’re missing half the fun – Flip Wilson
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself – Oliver Goldsmith
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation – W Somerset Maugham
It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all – John Kenneth Galbraith
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
When humor goes, there goes civilization – Erma Bombeck
You can’t be funny if you don’t have good material – Matt LeBlanc
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense – Jacob Riis
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor, It seems to worry them – Robert Benchley
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens – David Hyde Pierce
If it gets laughs, it’s funny – Rachel Dratch
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style – Maya Angelou
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times – John Gerzema
Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don’t have a sense of humor it just isn’t funny anymore – Wavy Gravy
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth – Stan Laurel
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! Joseph Pulitzer Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end – Eminem
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue – Thomas Jefferson
You’ve got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity – Lance Bass
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time – Hattie McDaniel
My wife is Swedish, so I’m familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor, It’s very dark and very deadpan – Cory Barlog
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important
If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics – Lee Atwater
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor – Ralph Fiennes
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion – Thomas Browne
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor – Brian Eno
Without those qualities he’s no Prince Charming! Anne Hathaway People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail – Bob Newhart
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side – Hunter S Thompson
We do not take humor seriously enough – Konrad Lorenz
And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise – Jami Gertz
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him – Romain Gary
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison – Philip Stanhope,
4th Earl of Chesterfield I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it’s never at the expense of the other guy – Bob Uecker
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor – Teri Garr
Humor and laughter – not necessarily derogatory derision – are my pet tools
This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously – for fear of dying of boredom – Marcel Duchamp
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm, In a sense, that’s how self-loathing is made palatable – James Gray
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth – Mark Van Doren
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends – Kids learn by example
If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom – Tim Allen
I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart – Carmen Electra
The Creator My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle – Jason Bateman
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion – Franklin D. Roosevelt
We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that’s why we’re their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we’re their favorite – Gigi Hadid
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns – Bret Michaels
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor – Horatio Nelson
I come from a family of teasers myself, My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly, My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me – Jeff Bridges
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor – William Gilmore Simms
I am often the brunt of my own humor – Charles R Swindoll
If you’re feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance – and laugh at yourself and be sexy
Dance the silliest and ugliest you’ve ever danced, Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor – Salma Hayek
I don’t indulge in double meaning humor – Sajid Khan
Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God – Adam Smith
And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins, Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around – Victoria Beckham
So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor – Eric Sevareid
We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator
Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew
But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke – Alan King
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator’s place and laugh at his own misfortune – Bert Williams
I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries – Jandy Nelson
I’m not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones – Naomi Judd
In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that’s good – Katie Lowes
Humor has been the balm of my life, but it’s been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana – Lana Turner
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor – Maynard James Keenan
The similarity between my music and The Beatles’ music is it has within it a very positive quality. It’s woven with humor – Donovan
When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel It has to come from someplace real – Tina Fey
Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else – Ryan Paevey
Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power – Josh Tillman
I never got a chance to see his sense of humor when I was working for him or playing for him – B J Armstrong
I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor – Paul McCartney
What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place – Vera Farmiga
It’s an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing – this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men At least, that’s the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor – Roxane Gay
Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place
There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope – James Howe
You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense – John Cassavetes
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything’s going to fall apart – Joyce Carol Oates
Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor – Iskra Lawrence
The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth – Charles Bukowski
You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it – Kesha Denzel Washington
I realized women and humor were linked very closely – Craig Ferguson
When a chick has a sense of humor, there’s nothing more attractive – Dylan O’Brien
People in real life don’t get ballplayers’ humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse – Justin Verlander
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal
Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it – Miguel de Cervantes
Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor
Stephen Hawking Humor and family emotions are integral to Telugu cinema – Akhil Akkineni
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn’t funny It’s a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it’s not a surprise anymore – Garrison Keillor
Or looking at dog photos! We didn’t know how to take those uses for Pinterest seriously until we realized, sometimes even I look at Pinterest to feel better, not just do something but feel happier, to feel connection, to feel humor, to know everyone goes through difficult times – Evan Sharp
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain – William Howard Taft
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance, If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd – David Lynch
I’ve used my sense of humor as a coping tool, It’s gotten me through a lot of challenging times – Adam Rippon Gallows
A sense of humor is great – it goes a long, long way in a marriage – Chris Rock
Humor is a part of spirituality – Zooey Deschanel
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it – Umberto Eco
If you cut out that sense of humor and warmth, you miss the point – Ken Loach
A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone – Colin Farrell
Since the very beginning, Emeril’s had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him – Anthony Bourdain
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches, But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor – H L Mencken
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart, It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper – Thomas Carlyle
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming – Alanis Morissette
They’re accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small – Anne Taintor
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit – Bobby Knight
Bringing humor and bringing happiness and joy to an audience is a wonderful opportunity in life, believe me – Angela Lansbury
In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares? Bianca Del Rio The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – it’s a man or a woman without a sense of humor – Jonathan Winters
It doesn’t take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation – Scott Adams
But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing – Carol Burnett
It never seems to occur to some people that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal – Edgar Rice Burroughs
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes – Gordon Gee
My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I’d gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor – Julia Glass
Working on newspapers, you’re writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor – women can’t drive, things like that
The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor – it all just overlaps – Weyes
Blood I can’t not put humor in a book – Albert Brooks
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character – Suzanne Vega
I’m strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy! Trixie Mattel If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something – Alan King
Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor – Katie Nolan
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance – D H Lawrence
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind, It’s the same qualities I require from a man – Catherine Deneuve
Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed – Arlo Guthrie
He was very dashing, had a wonderful sense of humor and was romantically handsome in the Scott Fitzgerald genre – Mariette Hartley
So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm – Kurt Fuller
I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny, I have to laugh at myself even if it’s a tough lesson – Yvette Nicole Brown
They say you don’t want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint – Walken
has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy – Bill Burr
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy – Cynthia P. Schneider
In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity – Edward de Bono
It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing – Dav Pilkey
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment – Freeman Dyson
They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective – Bonnie Raitt
Total absence of humor renders life impossible – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Alfred North Whitehead People of humor are always in some degree people of genius – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that’s a really classic form of humor – Chuck Palahniuk
Benedict Cumberbatch Christina Hoff Sommers is a self-identified feminist and registered Democrat with a Ph.D in philosophy and a wicked sense of humor – Bari Weiss
But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor
They’re all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives – Norman Lear
Nobody enjoys the ‘little show about nothing’ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it – Jerry Seinfeld
With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor – Patrick Wilson
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time – Lynda Barry
I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot – Peter Dinklage
What we’ve discovered is that Americans seem to love our saucy humor – Benny Hill
You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh – Michael Kors
King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author’s job is to tell the truth – Barry Eisler
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