Famous Humorous Quotes in English with Images

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.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.  The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth.  Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

- Dick Clark Quotes

A sense of humor is part of the art leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

- Humorous Quotes by Bill Nye Download or Share

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

- Humorous Quotes by Charlie Chaplin Download or Share

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

- Humorous Quotes by Colette Download or Share

That is the saving grace of humor, if you ail no one is laughing at you.

- Humorous Quotes by A. Whitney Brown Download or Share

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

- Hugh Elliott Quotes Download or Share

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

- James Thurber Quote

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

One doesn't have a sense of humor.  It has you.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.  No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Life is though, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.