Famous Humor Quotes - Famous Quotes about Humor
...it never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
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A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
- Don Herold
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A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
- Anonymous
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
- Clifton Fadiman
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
- E.B. White
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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
- Robert Benchley
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
- Will Rogers
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
- Mel Brooks
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
- Langston Hughes
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
- Aristotle
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I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.
- Billy Crystal
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers
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If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
- Eric Idle
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If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex.
- Kate Beckinsale
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If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
- Jennifer Jones
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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
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
- Langston Hughes
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall. (Forty Years On, 1968)
- Alan Bennett
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
- Larry Gelbart
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That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
- Gloria Vanderbilt
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
- Will Rogers
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What is this, an audience or an oil painting?
- Milton Berle
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Without humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.
- John Buchan
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