Humor Quotes

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Humor prevents a “hardening of the attitudes.”

Hurried and worried until we’re buried, and there’s no curtain call, life’s a very funny proposition after all.

The maxim of the tyrant, “If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.”

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.