Humor - Quotes & Sayings

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Stan Laurel

I think one in five Americans has a disability of some sort. That's 20% of the population, and yet we rarely ever see people with disabilities on-screen, and their stories and their resilience and their zest for life and their humor and their humanity.

Hong Chau

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

Hattie McDaniel

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Agnes Repplier

It's how you define yourself. It's not Nirvana or Pearl Jam: it's, 'Do you watch 'Portlandia' or 'Amy Schumer'?' It relates to a specific sense of humor. And, 'Do you know the hidden gems?' Like, if you knew the Pixies in the '80s.

Jonathan Krisel

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

Bob Newhart

I've got a great sense of humor.

Anthony Hopkins

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.

Salma Hayek

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

Simon Pegg

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

Allen Klein

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

John Callahan

Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.

Regina Hall

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Thomas Carlyle

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Edward Albee

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Jacob Riis

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Carl Hiaasen

Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

Tom Bodett

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

Phil Keoghan

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

Vera Farmiga

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

Holly Hunter

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

Emmett Kelly

All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

Kurt Sutter

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Don Herold

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

Lee Westwood

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

Mark Twain

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Mark Twain

Humor is reason gone mad.

Groucho Marx

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

Michael J. Fox

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

Bob Hope

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

H. L. Mencken

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Robert Collier

I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

Steven Wright

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Washington Irving

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

Jandy Nelson

We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.

Jeff Foxworthy

We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a piece of paper, and that's what makes you someone's favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that's why we're their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we're their favorite.

Gigi Hadid

Humor comes from self-confidence.

Rita Mae Brown

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

Steven Wright

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

Lance Bass

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

Michael J. Fox

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

John Hodgman

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

Bernard Williams

A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Anthony Bourdain

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Flip Wilson