Top 498 Humor Quotes

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

Edward de Bono

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

Ellen DeGeneres

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

Elizabeth McCracken

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

H. L. Mencken

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

Dan Simmons

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

Marian Seldes

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Victor Borge

I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.

I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.

Delroy Lindo

There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.

Marlon Wayans

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

Robert Orben

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