Category: Humor Quotes SMS

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966CSN

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds.  A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.  ~William James

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.  ~Frank A. Clark

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.  ~Mahatma Gandhi

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.  ~Francis Bacon

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.  ~Dorothy Parker

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself.  I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.  ~Abe BurrowsCUL

Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events.  ~E.T. "Cy" Eberhart

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.  ~Thomas W. Higginson

Comedy has to be based on truth.  You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.  ~Sid Caesar

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.  The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.  ~Mark Twain

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.  ~William Davis

Humor is just another defense against the universe.  ~Mel Brooks

Humor has a way of bringing people together.  It unites people.  In fact, I’m rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations.  ~Ron Dentinger

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs – jolted by every pebble in the road.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Humor is… despair refusing to take itself seriously.  ~Arland Ussher

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective:  an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.  ~Christopher Morley