Top 100 Humor Is Quotes
#1. There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.
Constance Rourke
#3. We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator ... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
Alan King
#4. Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.
James Burrows
#5. Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.
George Takei
#7. Humor is the most faithful supporting actor in a tragedy. So
Herbjorg Wassmo
#8. Humor is detachment, and detachment sets you free.
Marty Rubin
#10. Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.
Robert Mankoff
#11. Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
Tom Robbins
#12. The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever.
Heath Ledger
#14. Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb
#15. Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.
Mark Twain
#17. The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
Eric Bana
#18. Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#19. 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
#21. Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
Sigmund Freud
#22. Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
Vinton Cerf
#23. The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.
Leah Hager Cohen
#24. My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think - I guess 'wild' is a good word for it. I'm still sweet! But I won't let anyone walk all over me.
Lauren Lapkus
#25. I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
Kyle Chandler
#26. Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#27. I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.
Fran Lebowitz
#28. 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
#29. Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.
Mark Twain
#30. Some sarcasm is best told simply. Some humor is best told big and some is best told small.
Kevin Hart
#31. Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
Christian Morgenstern
#32. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
#33. Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery
Charles Simmons
#34. Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility
Thomas Jefferson
#35. Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.
Betty White
#36. In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.
Jason Mraz
#38. Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
Lynda Barry
#39. I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.
Simon Pegg
#42. Humor is like a rhythm; it's like music. And you throw a couple of extra syllables in, you wreck the beat and you kill the laugh. So I try to follow the writers very carefully because I know how carefully they worked to do it that way.
Betty White
#43. Humor is the only thing I've got left. Humor and determination.
Brandon Sanderson
#44. Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
J. Tillman
#45. Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.
Mark Twain
#47. Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.
Kurt Vonnegut
#48. Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.
Robert Orben
#49. 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
#50. My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.
John Hodgman
#52. 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
#53. Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
Chris Lilley
#54. I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but ... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
Ian MacKaye
#55. I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.
Leila Josefowicz
#56. A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.
Chris Rock
#57. Humor is a passive form of terrorism, of resistance, and of pseudo-aggression that has less to do with changing the world than with mental hygiene. It is self-therapy...
Romain Gary
#58. When I did 'Sex and the City,' it was like, 'Let's do a comedy where the humor is not coming from innuendo but from the a truthful place. This is a show where we're going to be able to say and do what we want.'
Darren Star
#59. The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.
Thomas Carlyle
#60. Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
Eminem
#61. Wisconsin isn't a state, it's a state of mind; and gentle good humor is the coin of the realm.
Scott Jacobs
#62. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.
Sloane Crosley
#63. Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.
Pope Benedict XVI
#64. Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to.
Fougasse
#65. Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.
Max Eastman
#67. Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.
Rollo May
#68. Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.
John Kricfalusi
#71. Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.
Chevy Chase
#74. The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
Dan Castellaneta
#75. I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.
Dick Dale
#76. Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
#77. The 4D style, or cosmic comics and relativistic humor, is based on Einstein's theory of relativity which I came up with 20 years ago. 4D works use the idea of the fourth dimension, time, playing on such surrealistic and amazing subjects as motion relativity, space curvature and time dilation.
Javad Alizadeh
#78. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#79. Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman
#80. Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can't exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can't exist on a diet without it, either.
David Levithan
#81. A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation.
Chogyam Trungpa
#82. Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#83. People have found her somber, but it is sometimes because her humor is so deadpan dry that it escapes many.
Irin Carmon
#84. A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Fadiman
#85. I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#86. A sense of humor ... is superior to any religion so far devised.
Tom Robbins
#87. There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!
Judy Woodruff
#88. Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Lewis Mumford
#89. When you're older, no matter how good your humor is you don't always feel perky and peppy. But if you sit home all day and brood about it, it gets worse.
Iris Apfel
#90. Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
Ian Frazier
#91. The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
Agnes Repplier
#92. Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.
J. Oswald Sanders
#94. Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
Mallory Ortberg
#95. The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.
Robert Mankoff
#96. All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Lenny Bruce
#98. I think humor is often a very powerful tool to be able to express ideas that are heavy.
Camille Henrot
#99. His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it.
Lisa Lutz
