Humor Quotes

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

21194 quotes

"Humor is the poetry of the common man."
Romain Rolland
"Laughter is the soul's response to truth."
Romain Rolland
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"The human spirit is so constituted that it can gain great difficulty by laughing at it."
Anatole France
A
"The greatest misfortune that can happen to a man is to lose his sense of humor."
Anatole France
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
A
"The only really important thing is not to lose one's sense of humor."
Albert Camus
"Humor is the wisdom of the weak; it allows us to laugh at what would otherwise crush us."
Romain Rolland
S
"Never in my whole life have I heard or read such nonsense."
Simone de Beauvoir
S
"What a curious mixture of Englishness one has."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"The human species is made up of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend."
Anatole France
A
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
Anatole France
A
"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."
Anatole France
A
"Life would be tolerable but for its amusements."
Anatole France
A
"We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse."
Anatole France
A
"When a man laughs at his troubles, he gets relief; when he merely thinks of them, he gets misery."
Anatole France
J
"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek"
Jean-Paul Sartre
M
"Men do not cease to be children because they grow older."
Marcel Proust
"Humor is the most intelligent response to an absurd world."
Romain Rolland
A
"The only way to deal with the inevitable is to face it with grace and humor."
Albert Camus
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"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking."
Denis Diderot
D
"Work is the scourge of the drinking classes."
Denis Diderot
D
"A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks."
Denis Diderot
D
"Laughter is the best medicine."
Denis Diderot
J
"Humor is the recognition of the absurd."
Jean-Paul Sartre
M
"The only thing worse than being gossiped about is not being gossiped about."
Marcel Proust
J
"Laughter is the medicine of the soul."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
J
"Humor is a way of transcending the absurd conditions of existence."
Jean-Paul Sartre
D
"I have only ever loved one person in my life, and it is myself."
Denis Diderot
J
"Humor is the mask worn by truth when it wishes to be heard."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I love mankind; it is men I find utterly tedious."
André Gide