All Quotes

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
‐‐ Allen Klein

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
‐‐ Carl Hiaasen

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
‐‐ Carl Hiaasen

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
‐‐ Allen Klein

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
‐‐ Ted Danson

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.
‐‐ Allen Klein

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
‐‐ Garry Trudeau

Humor comes from self-confidence.
‐‐ Rita Mae Brown

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
‐‐ Agnes Repplier

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
‐‐ Allen Klein

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
‐‐ Allen Klein

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
‐‐ Billy Collins

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
‐‐ Laurel Lea

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.
‐‐ Tom DeLonge

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
‐‐ Lana Turner

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
‐‐ Garrison Keillor

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.
‐‐ Marlon Wayans

Humor helps people open up.
‐‐ Roger von Oech

Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.
‐‐ Cynthia P. Schneider

Humor - I see it as a survival skill.
‐‐ Jill McCorkle

Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'
‐‐ Helen Mirren

Humor is a part of spirituality.
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.
‐‐ George Takei

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
‐‐ James Thurber

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
‐‐ Steve Allen

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
‐‐ Ray Stevenson

Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
‐‐ Garry Shandling

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

Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
‐‐ Mallory Ortberg

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
‐‐ Romain Gary

Humor is an antidote to all ills.
‐‐ Patch Adams

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
‐‐ Edward de Bono

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
‐‐ James Thurber

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
‐‐ Bill Nye

Humor is healing.
‐‐ Brad Garrett

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.
‐‐ Doris Roberts

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

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
‐‐ Langston Hughes

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
‐‐ Irvin S. Cobb

Humor is my default mode.
‐‐ John Updike

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

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

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
‐‐ Edward de Bono