Humor Quotes

A good sense of humor is a survival skill. These quotes celebrate wit, comedy, sarcasm, and the ability to find something funny in situations that might otherwise be unbearable. Laughter, it turns out, is a form of intelligence.

“My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.”

Manuel Puig

More Humor Quotes

“You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.”

Steve Irwin

“Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.”

Peter Steele

“I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.”

Danny Boyle

“I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.”

Louis C. K.

“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.”

Jessamyn West

“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

“Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.”

Wentworth Miller

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

Flip Wilson

“I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.”

Rod Stewart

“I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.”

Alton Brown

“The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.”

Alfred North Whitehead

“Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.”

Allen Klein

“Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.”

Roger Moore

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