Quotes about Humor
Humor is man's greatest blessing.
— Mark Twain
The cause of laughter in every case is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real objects which have been thought through it in some relation, and laughter itself is just the expression of this incongruity.... All laughter then is occasioned by a paradox.... This, briefly stated, is the true explanation of the ludicrous.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
— LM Montgomery
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
— Muhammad Ali
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
— Oscar Wilde
Our sense of humor is a gift from God that should be controlled as well as cultivated. Clean, wholesome humor will relax tension and relieve difficult situations. Leaders can use it to displace tension with a sense of normal.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
— Mark Twain
They asked her (Ruth Graham) did she ever think about divorce and she said, 'No, I've never thought of divorce in all these 35 years of marriage, but,' she said, 'I did think of murder a few times.
— Billy Graham
Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?
— Mark Cahill
The man had the intelligence of the average fence post, the personality of a wounded warthog, and the stubbornness of a flea-bitten mule. Grace silently apologized to all the animals she'd just insulted.
— Mary Connealy
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.
— Philip K. Dick
That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
— Mark Twain