Quotes for Humor

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

John Cassavetes

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

Emanuel Celler

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Dr. Seuss

Ever notice how it’s a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two-cents? Someone is making a penny on the deal.

Steven Wright

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Mahatma Gandhi

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Langston Hughes

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

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

I didn’t go to college, but if I did, I would’ve taken all my tests at a restaurant, ’cause ‘The customer is always right.’

Mitch Hedberg

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

Mark Twain

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

Dean Koontz

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e. e. cummings

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 reason gone mad.

Groucho Marx

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Milton Berle

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Al Franken

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Steve Allen