Top 100 Humor Is Truth Quotes
#1. Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Victor Borge
#2. Religions are strange. They seem to be caught in some dream which they won't give up and trying to convince others of the truth of their dream, when in fact each person is having their own dream. Take what you need from the religions and just leave the rest, and be all right with that.
Art Hochberg
#3. Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.
David Mitchell
#5. To tell the truth, it is regarding the physical side of marriage that I have always been apprehensive...There so seldom seems to be enough of it," said Miss Teatime.
Colin Watson
#6. Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
Mark Van Doren
#7. Humor plays close to the big hot fire which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat.
E.B. White
#8. I could only approach girls half my age, so I never brought any girl home. Mom thought I was disciplined, but the truth is that I was deprived.
Nick Nwaogu
#9. Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#11. This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth
ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!
- Letter to J. H. Twichell, 1/29/1901
Mark Twain
#12. Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.
Lily Tomlin
#13. Oftentimes, a truth is so big, so far beyond our understanding, that the only way we can grasp it is through a story. The creation of the whole universe is like that. How can our puny brains contain it?
Sam Torode
#14. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
Patrick Ness
#15. The truth is a thing I get id of as soon as possible! Bad habit, by the way. Makes one very unpopular at the club... with the older members. They call it being conceited. Perhaps it is.
Oscar Wilde
#16. I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.
Will Rogers
#18. ...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#20. The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't - whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
John Updike
#21. In my fantasy world everyone has a happy ending. No one is told who they should be, how they should feel, who they are allowed to love, what they should believe and how they should look. Sadly, everyone in my world can't seem to get along with one another because everyone is so darn different.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. Trust is not hoping your partner will love you; it is KNOWING that they DO.
Julieanne O'Connor
#23. By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.
Christopher Moore
#24. There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956]
Dorothy Parker
#25. Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#26. Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.
Belle De Jour
#28. It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.)
John Duover
#29. A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.
Jill Abramson
#30. The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.
Gina Barreca
#31. Love is the purest form of each individual on the planet Earth
Nitin Yaduvanshi
#32. Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and -
Richelle Mead
#33. There is truth in wine, but you never see it listed in the ingredients on the label
Josh Stern
#34. We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.
Prem Rawat
#35. The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#37. In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#38. Dad, is she serious?"
John shrugged. "I argue with your Mama, I sleep on the couch and she doesn't feed me. So i dont argue with your mama.
Molly McAdams
#39. Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God's joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense of humor.
Jamila Hammad
#40. There is a perfect marriage. Any marriage counselor can tell you that.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#43. Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
George Saunders
#44. One who is seeking the truth sooner or later finds a woman.
Sergey Vedenyo
#45. The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
Terry Pratchett
#47. Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.
David Sedaris
#48. The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.
Robert Mankoff
#49. To love is easy, to be in a relationship is extremely difficult.
Santosh Kalwar
#50. Smartass Disciple: What were you thinking when the truth is revealed unto you?
Master of Stupidity: I wasn't thinking. I was having sex when it came to my mind.
Toba Beta
#51. The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.
Marianne Cushing
#52. Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#53. You know what truth is? [ ... ] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?
Kurt Vonnegut
#54. Throwing a tantrum feels good because you think you are ruining everyone's good time when you feel your very worst. But the truth is, you're not ruining their good time, you're just giving them another good story.
Mindy Kaling
#55. When we tend to be too hard on those we love, we erode the softness of our souls in the process, taking out the humanity within us that is the nucleus of our goodness, even if our actions are for their own sake.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#56. Why, my goodness, honey. After looking at all those pictures of seraphic and perspirationless babes for so long in the privacy of a foxhole, what is a poor doughfoot going to do when he comes home and discovers that American women are, after all, biological and given, under stress, to shiny noses?
Margaret Mitchell
#57. The truth is what we say it is ... prove to me this desk is not a cow!
Ray S. Jones
#58. In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.
Amanda Howells
#59. There is no animal more invincible than a woman,
Loretta Chase
#60. Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
Barry Eisler
#61. ...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people's destiny is charted...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#62. The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.
Maggie Stiefvater
#63. The statement 'There is nothing more American than an Indian' happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.
Charles Slagle
#64. No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.
Cheryl Strayed
#65. I realize you cant just throw real gems at ppl ... because they think cubic zirconia is the real thing lol
Fee Scott
#66. What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#67. Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.
James S.A. Corey
#69. Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.
Charlaine Harris
#70. I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.
Molly Ivins
#71. The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
Chuck Palahniuk
#72. It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#73. Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity.
Skyla Madi
#74. It is better to be hurt with the truth than to be encouraged with lies ...
Adedayo Kingjerry
#75. The easiest lie ever told is a truth no one believes.- Sixteen Seconds
Aubrea Summer
#76. Culver is a language magnet school. What it's mainly a magnet for, if you want to know the truth, is nerds.
Dave Barry
#77. It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood.
Lois Greiman
#78. The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its self-made problems offering comic relief to the ills of the real world out there, where famine and racial strife and vandals in office are the unhappy rule.
Mordecai Richler
#79. The truth is, I hate not being the first person narrator all the way through! To paraphrase David Copperfield, I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it?
Anne Rice
#81. Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
Johannes Kepler
#82. Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#83. When you're given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.
Shannon L. Alder
#84. The notion of whether there would be some kind of organization in this potluck deal? Shouldn't somebody get on the phone and call the guest list? What if they ended up with too many deviled eggs?
'There is no such thing as too many deviled eggs,' said Cynthia.
Jan Karon
#85. How is it that standing outside for a minute in 90 degree heat is torture, yet standing in a blistering hot shower for 20 minutes is paradise?
Sara Marcus
#86. It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.
Sloane Crosley
#87. ...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#88. My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
#89. Some of what we learned early on turned out to be true (the earth is round; if you want a friend be a friend; cleanliness is next to impossible) and some of it turned out to be false (Santa Claus; the Tooth Fairy; Kansas is more fun than Oz).
Peter McWilliams
#90. Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#91. This sort of feels like green."
"This is me being blue. Don't worry - you're still yellow
Katie McGarry
#92. Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
Bill Watterson
#93. And besides, the thing about committing yourself to a lie is that mostly you end up in twice the trouble, 'cause truth is like a whirlwind and you can't keep it in a box.
Sarah Monette
#94. In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson
#95. There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#96. The Theist tells us that the truth is god exists,
the Atheist tells us that the truth is there is no god,
while the truth tells us we don't know.
Kodai Okuda
#97. The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
George Carlin
#98. Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman
#100. For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.
Muriel Spark
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