Humor Quotes

"In the business of living, the great secret is to know when to laugh."

"A jest without a jest is no jest at all."

"The world is a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and laughter is the key."

"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow."

"Travelling is the ruin of all happiness!"

"The world has always laughed at its own follies; why should not I?"

"Laughter is the medicine that needs no physician."

"A man cannot be always laughing."

"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food."

"A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people."

"The shrewdest apes which ever lived in the Tower were not able to tell their right hand from their left."

"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

"You will never be alone with a schizophrenic."

"A smart man may be an ass in his affairs."

"There is not so much wit in all the world as folly."

"There is not perhaps a more valuable character in society than the man who makes a good joke in the right moment."

"Mankind is composed more of follies than wisdom."

"Man is the only creature who laughs; and the only creature who ought to laugh."

"A jest should be like a jewel—small, bright, and precious."

"The mark of true wisdom is the ability to laugh at oneself."

"Laughter in dark times is an act of profound rebellion."

"Humor in the face of adversity is the soul's declaration of victory."

"Nothing so much marks the character of a man as what he laughs at."

"A man is generally better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek."

"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner than when his wife talks Greek."

"I confess I have a horror of people who are not amused by anything."

"Humor is the grace that makes the unbearable tolerable."

"Humor allows us to laugh at ourselves and thus transcend ego."

"I have never yet met with a man who could support a conversation on any subject for ten minutes without reference to his own profession."

"Humor is the spice that makes life palatable."