Humor Quotes

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

21194 quotes

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"Youth is a disease from which we all recover."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Humor is truth wrapped in lightness."
Fannie Hurst
"Humor allows us to endure what we cannot escape."
Fannie Hurst
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"Humor is the light that breaks through the darkness of difficulty."
Amy Lowell
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"Humor is wisdom wrapped in lightness."
Amy Lowell
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"A moment of humor can change the entire trajectory of a difficult day."
O. Henry
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"Humor allows us to speak truths that would otherwise be dangerous to utter."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Humor is the relief valve of the human spirit; without it, we would break."
Kate Chopin
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"Humor acknowledges the absurdity of our condition and finds grace within it."
Kate Chopin
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"I have found that humor is the best medicine for despair."
Upton Sinclair
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"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."
O. Henry
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"A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion, but doesn't."
O. Henry
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"Humor is the balm of the troubled soul."
Jack London
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"Humor is the wisdom of those who understand sorrow."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"The humor that recognizes human folly is more valuable than judgment."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it."
Booth Tarkington
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"Humor is the intelligence of the wise."
Booth Tarkington
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"Humor often reveals truth more effectively than seriousness."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Funny things happen to us all day long, if we're alive to see them."
O. Henry
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"Life insurance is a bet that you'll die soon; the company bets you'll live long."
O. Henry
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"Nothing so much relieves a person's feelings as making a fool of himself."
Booth Tarkington
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"Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but it hasn't improved our table manners."
Upton Sinclair
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"Humor is the wisdom that acknowledges the absurdity of existence and chooses joy anyway."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness."
O. Henry
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"Very likely it is absurd, things often are."
Gertrude Stein
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"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."
Gertrude Stein
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"Humor is the weapon of the wise against despair."
Booth Tarkington
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"Laughter is the best medicine for a troubled spirit."
Booth Tarkington
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"The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby."
Jack London
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not so, we would all be there."
Upton Sinclair