Serious Quotes About Humor
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
-A. Whitney Brown
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
-Aristotle
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
-Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-Charlie Chaplin, in My Autobiography
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
-Colette, Chance Acquaintances
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
-Dick Clark
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
-E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
-Edward De Bono
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
-Horace Walpole
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
-Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
-James Thurber
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
-James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
-Larry Gelbart
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
-Lewis Mumford
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
-Mark Twain
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
-Mary Hirsch
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
-Mel Brooks
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
-Mel Brooks
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
-Pico Iyer, Time
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
-Robert Benchley
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
-Salma Hayek
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
-T. S. Eliot
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
-Will Rogers
Every fight is a food fight when you're a cannibal.
-Demetri Martin
I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...or a game of fake heart attack.
-Demetri Martin
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
-Bill Cosby
If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.
-Dave Allen
