| There are 94 quotations for your search 'humor'. QUOTES AND QUOTATIONS. | |
You can also search for a word.
| Or search for author: |
|
|
| If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you. | Alfred E. Smith | 1873-1944, American Politician |
| Wit. The salt with which the American HUMORist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell? | Andy Warhol | 1930-, American Artist, Filmmaker |
| The secret to humour is surprise. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh | Carl Reiner | American Director, Actor |
| Comedy is a tragedy plus time. | Carol Burnett | American Television Comedian |
| Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| In the end, everything is a gag. | Charlie Chaplin | 1889-1977, British Comic Actor, Filmmaker |
| One never needs their humour as much a when they argue with a fool. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
|
| An emotional man may possess no humour, but a HUMORous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten. | Constance Rourke | 1885-1941, American Author |
| Good humour isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. | David Seabury | American Doctor, Author |
| Humour is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law. | Dick Clark | American Entertainer, Television Personality |
| A HUMORist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. | Don Herold | |
| I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour. | Edward Albee | 1928-, American Playwright, Dramatist |
| Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. | Edward De Bono | 1933-, British Writer On Thinking Process |
| Where ever you find humour, you find pathos close by it side. | Edwin P. Whipple | 1819-1886, American Essayist |
| WARNING: Humour may be hazardous to your illness. | Ellie Katz | |
| Get well cards have become so HUMORous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. | Flip Wilson | 1933-, American Actor, Comedian |
| Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humour to console him for what he is. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
|
| Fortune and humour govern the world. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humours as on fortune. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. | Frank Muir | 1920-, British Humorist, Writer |
| A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. | Fredrich | |
| A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind. | Gilbert Seldes | |
| Good humour is a tonic for mind and body. 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 | 1868-1953, American Author |
| Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humour wouldn't still be here. | Harry S. Truman | 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA |
| A person without a sense of humour is like a waggon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road. | Henry Ward Beecher | 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer |
| A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness. | Horace | BC 65-8, Italian Poet |
|
| There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke. | J. J. Procter | American Businessman |
| HUMOR is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. | James Thurber | 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator |
| One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. | Jean De La Bruyere | 1645-1696, French Writer |
| Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. | Johann Georg Zimmermann | 1957-, German Physicist |
| What some people invent the rest enlarge. | Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist |
| Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. | Joseph Conrad | 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist |
| There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. | Joseph Joubert | 1754-1824, French Moralist |
| HUMOR is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. | Langston Hughes | 1902-1967, American Poet, Short-story Writer, Playwright |
| A poor joke must invent its own laughter. | Latin Proverb | Sayings of Latin Origin |
|
| For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. | Laurence Sterne | 1713-1768, British Author |
| The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. | Lenny Bruce | 1925-1966, American Comedian |
| All my humour is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover. | Lenny Bruce | 1925-1966, American Comedian |
| HUMOR is the affectionate communication of insight. | Leo Rosten | 1908-1997, Polish Born American Political Scientist |
| Humour is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each HUMORist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers | Leo Rosten | 1908-1997, Polish Born American Political Scientist |
| A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. | Lionel Strachey | |
| Probably it is impossible for humour to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. | Lionel Trilling | 1905-1975, American Critic |
| By blood a king, in heart a clown. | Lord Alfred Tennyson | 1809-1892, British Poet |
| I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humour. | Lord Nelson | |
| It is the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. | Lord Shaftesbury | 1671-1713, British Statesman |
Quotes pages: 1 ~ 50
|
