Humor Quotes
Laughter as philosophy. The funniest, sharpest observations about the absurdity of being alive.
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"Humor is a way of speaking truth when directness would shatter."Ralph Ellison
"Humor is the tragedy we have learned to laugh at."Ralph Ellison
"A man without humor is like a machine without oil."John Steinbeck
"Humor allows us to speak truths that seriousness cannot."Ralph Ellison
"Laughter is the best medicine for the soul when the world feels heavy."Langston Hughes
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."Zora Neale Hurston
"Humor helps us endure the unbearable."Pearl S. Buck
"The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "best" things."John Steinbeck
"Humor is truth in disguise."William Faulkner
"Laughter is a weapon of survival against despair."Langston Hughes
"I've written that laughter and tears are neighbors."Langston Hughes
"I drink to make other people more interesting."Ernest Hemingway
"You're a rotten driver. No, you are. Whenever I see you drive, I go to sleep."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The ability to curse smoothly is a mark of good breeding."Zora Neale Hurston
"Laughter may be day without night."Zora Neale Hurston
"Nothing is more precious than laughter."Sinclair Lewis
"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow."Sinclair Lewis
"If you can laugh at it, you can live with it."Sinclair Lewis
"I fear I am a boring old man. Perhaps that is because I am so interested in so many things."John Steinbeck
"I never look at the eyes. If you look at the eyes, it ruins the whole effect."John Steinbeck
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."Ernest Hemingway
"I had nothing to say and I was saying it."Ernest Hemingway
"Humor is the tragedy of life plus time."Theodore Dreiser
"Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone."Edith Wharton
"I have no patience with people who laugh in the wrong places."Edith Wharton
"Success is only a matter of luck. Ask any failure."Edith Wharton
"A lot of people think that I'm a snob."Edith Wharton
"I am glad not to have been born a woman."Edith Wharton
"No man fully capable of his own opinion has ever lost a winking contest."Sinclair Lewis