Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Humor

Humor

Everything has two sides--the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.--Olive Schreiner
Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?--Anonymous
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of surprises.--Erma Bombeck (in "She Said What? Interviews With Newspaper Columnists")
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.--Romain Gary (Promise At Dawn)
Humor is an antidote to isolation.--Elizabeth Janeway (Improper Behavior)
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.--Agnes Varda
Humor is that which most efficiently recognizes that we are living in an imperfect world, with imperfect arguments and things that are insane, illogical, and irrational. And the only way we can live with that fact is to laugh.--J. Barsoux
Humor offers an alternative to violence… Humor gives us a choice.--Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.
Humor opposes directly those emotions which have been specifically recorded as being associated with precipitation of heart attack. These emotions are fear and rage. Humor acts to relieve hear. Rage is impossible when mirth prevails.--Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.--Dr. Seuss
I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.--Anne Wilson Schaef
If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.--Lord Chesterfield
Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.--George Mikes
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.--Billy Graham
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.--Langston Hughes
A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable.--Moshe Waldoks
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quickly than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.--Moss Hart (Act One)
There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes … we don't. Still, the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.--Allen Klein (The Lift-Your-Spirits Quote Book)
There's a ... distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.--Dorothy Parker (in Writers At Work by Cowley)
There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.--Eva Hoffman (Exit into History)
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone--Reba McIntyre (Comfort From a Country Quilt)