Top 100 A Sense Of Humor Quotes
#1. In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of humor. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.
Bo Lozoff
#2. Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and ... he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
#3. The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.
Geraldine Ferraro
#4. It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.
Fran Lebowitz
#5. It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.
Whit Stillman
#6. Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.
Matt Stone
#7. I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.
Daryl Hall
#8. If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.
Jennifer Nettles
#10. Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
Dan Auerbach
#11. Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.
Jean Webster
#12. I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character ... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
Wallace Shawn
#13. I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
Kyle Chandler
#14. Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America - that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.
Redd Foxx
#15. It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part of the Cuban idiosyncrasy. Curiously, the films that have been censored the most have been humorous.
Fernando Perez
#17. What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.
Clifton Fadiman
#18. God has a sense of humor, he places you where you would never expect.
Susan Craig
#19. He was never angry when she made mistakes. He complimented and encouraged her. He shared his own mishaps with a sense of humor that made her less annoyed with her own incompetence. He gave her hope that she could learn, and pride when she did.
Francine Rivers
#20. A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.
Cynthia Heimel
#21. Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me," he would say. "Johnson didn't enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn't think they had a sense of humor.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#22. I had these slinky eyes and a sense of humor.
Myrna Loy
#23. There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.
Guy Pearce
#24. But that's what I love about punk music. It has a sense of humor about itself, doesn't pretend to be something it's not. It's kickass funk with a heavy-metal edge, but with a conscience. Good
Rachel Cohn
#25. When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
Max Frisch
#26. The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part.
Hill Harper
#27. There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.
Connie Britton
#28. I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
John Malkovich
#29. I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#30. If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
Maira Kalman
#33. Does God have a sense of humor? He must have if He created us.
Jackie Gleason
#35. A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Samuel Butler
#36. With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
Patrick Wilson
#37. I decided long ago that life's absurd. If you don't develop a sense of humor, it will drive you mad.
James Maxey
#38. I think some of the big characters, you know, they do these adventures, but they've got something about them, they've got this charisma, and they've got to have a sense of humor. Because whether it be very dry, or very silly, they've got to be likable.
Rhys Darby
#39. If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
Alan Thicke
#40. A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
Thornton Wilder
#41. But the lack of a sense of humor was an insurmountable defect, in my opinion.
Jeaniene Frost
#42. A sense of humor is a sense of proportion. It is also a sense of delight
delight in noting life has its incongruities and absurdities and that we can live in spite of them.
John Frederick Nims (WESTERN WIND: AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY)
Margaret Jean Langstaff
#43. I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
Zac Efron
#44. Miss Langman was often, in interviews, described as a witty conversationalist; how can a woman be witty when she hasn't a sense of humor? - and she has none, which was her central flaw as a person and as an artist.
Truman Capote
#45. I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.
Charlize Theron
#46. Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
Jack Germond
#47. Feminist is so heavy with baggage, negative baggage: You hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don't wear makeup, you don't shave, you're always angry, you don't have a sense of humor, you don't use deodorant.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#48. A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Fadiman
#49. A sense of humor ... is superior to any religion so far devised.
Tom Robbins
#50. Keep a sense of humor, that keeps you balanced, and you'll do quite well with it all, I'm sure.
Frederick Lenz
#51. There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!
Judy Woodruff
#52. Those who lack a sense of humor are destined to be life's hacked up hairballs.
S.A. Garcia
#53. It was called Operation Coitus Interruptus, which only goes to prove that there are some people in the FBI with a sense of humor.
James Patterson
#54. You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.
Frederick Lenz
#55. On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.
George Will
#56. And he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.
Hunter S. Thompson
#57. The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.
Lincoln Steffens
#58. She doesn't really have a sense of humor. I think she'd like to have one - it's just that she doesn't quite understand what jokes are for.
Sophie Kinsella
#59. A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.
Chris Rock
#60. The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
Viktor E. Frankl
#61. Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!
Anne Hathaway
#62. Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
Eminem
#63. I said it jokingly, so this guy was just trying to stir something up that's not there. He's just somebody who doesn't have a sense of humor, like I do.
Shaquille O'Neal
#64. People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
Bob Newhart
#65. I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.
Stephen King
#66. Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.
Max Irons
#67. We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.
Frederick Lenz
#68. I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.
Alan Moore
#69. I'm a big fan of independent girls who are strong-willed, vocal in their opinions, and have a sense of humor.
David Lambert
#70. What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
H.L. Mencken
#72. I met Steve Jobs once. In '06? He had a sense of humor.
Fred Armisen
#73. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
Oscar Wilde
#75. The way that I approach music has a bit of a sense of humor to it. Something slightly different that people can still relate to.
Natasha Bedingfield
#76. Interviewer: You said I'm the first psychoanalyst you've met who had a sense of humor. Meaning you've met others who didn't?
Ezra: Proper little Sherlock over here, huh.
Amie Kaufman
#77. Because if there's anything you need to be a physical therapist, it's a sense of humor.
Adele Levine
#78. If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently
Stanislaw Lem
#79. I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.
Michael Stuhlbarg
#80. As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.
Frederick Lenz
#81. Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E.B. White
#82. Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
Wavy Gravy
#83. Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you?
Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.
Julian Fellowes
#84. If you're gonna take people on a journey that deals with some pretty heavy themes, I think you best have a sense of humor, here and there.
Francesca Gregorini
#85. Oh, I like going down the rabbit hole. You know, that's kind of my job. When you play Macbeth, you gotta dive down that one. The trick is figuring out how to do it with love and a sense of humor so you can pop back out again. But, kind of the actor's job is to go down the rabbit hole.
Ethan Hawke
#86. Oh, God, oh, God. A sense of humor. She'd thought the hardly-even-a-hint she'd caught of it a while back had been a one-off thing, but that was a joke he'd just made. An honest-to-God joke! She wanted to have his baby.
Susan Andersen
#87. Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.
Maya Angelou
#88. I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.
Steve Buscemi
#89. When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.
Dylan O'Brien
#90. Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions
Criss Jami
#91. We can always lace a sense of humor around anything.
C. JoyBell C.
#92. The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
Margo Kaufman
#93. There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#95. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#96. All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.
Leonard Carmichael
#97. Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
Jesse Ventura
#98. I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.
Katharine Isabelle
#99. I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
Suzanne Vega
#100. I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.
Joe Frank
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