Humor Quotes and Sayings

Humor Quotes and Sayings

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. ~ Groucho Marx

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it. ~ Fred Allen

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. ~ E. B. White

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ~ Peter Ustinov


Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. ~ J. B. Priestley


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

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. ~ Mark Twain

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. ~ Steven Wright

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

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. ~ Doug Larson

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. ~ Clifton Paul Fadiman

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

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

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