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