Quotes
Quotes about Humor
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. -Thomas Carlyle.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent.
Unconscious humor.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh. And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous. By'r Lady, he is a good musician.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Points of View.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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. - Inward Ho.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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.
A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.
