Humor Quotes

Laughter as philosophy. The funniest, sharpest observations about the absurdity of being alive.

21194 quotes

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"Humor and play serve important functions in maintaining social relationships."
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
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"Humor is a sign of intelligence and humanity."
Christopher Dawson
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"Humor reveals truth in unexpected ways."
Christopher Dawson
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"Humor is a sign of strength and resilience in the face of adversity."
Margaret Mead
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"The best jokes reveal uncomfortable truths about ourselves."
Margaret Mead
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"Humor is often the most honest way of speaking about difficult truths."
Bronislaw Malinowski
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"Humor is the weapon of those too intelligent for direct confrontation."
Oswald Spengler
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"Humor often masks a profound bitterness about the human condition."
Oswald Spengler
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"Humor is the ability to see the incongruity in things."
Gregory Bateson
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"Humor is wisdom served with a smile."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Humor lightens the burden of existence."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Humor is the perspective that enables survival."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Humor is a sign of intelligence and resilience."
Marc Bloch
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"Humor reveals truth in unexpected places."
Oswald Spengler
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"Humor is wisdom wearing a mask."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Humor helps us bear the unbearable."
Jacques Le Goff
"Humor reveals truth about ourselves."
Fernand Braudel
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"Humor is often the most penetrating form of truth-telling."
Arnold Toynbee
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"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy."
Margaret Mead
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"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
Margaret Mead
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"Humor is the wisdom that comes from seeing the absurd."
Margaret Mead
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"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
Michel Crouzet
"Humor helps us endure what we cannot change."
Eric Hobsbawm
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"Laughter and humor served crucial social functions in organizing and critiquing medieval hierarchies."
Jacques Le Goff
"The great advantage of the dead is that they don't come back to contradict us."
Eric Hobsbawm
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"Humor reveals the deepest truths about human nature."
Maurice Natanson
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"Humor is the oldest form of resistance against despair."
Michel Crouzet
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"Humor allows us to survive what would otherwise destroy us."
Michel Crouzet
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"In laughter, we transcend the boundaries that separate us from others."
Maurice Natanson
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"Humor allows us to maintain perspective and solidarity."
Peter Berger