Humor Quotes

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

21194 quotes

"Humor lightens the burdens we carry."
Eliza Haywood
"Laughter is medicine for the weary soul."
Eliza Haywood
J
"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."
Jonathan Swift
J
"Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person."
Jonathan Swift
J
"He that knows himself does not know his ass from a hole in the ground."
Jonathan Swift
J
"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."
Jonathan Swift
J
"He is a merciful man who would give a sick man a laxative."
Jonathan Swift
"Humor is the balm of a wounded heart."
Aphra Behn
M
"Humor is the soul's way of coping."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The constancy of human folly provides endless material for observation and satire."
Eliza Haywood
S
"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek."
Samuel Johnson
P
"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"A well-placed jest can disarm even the most rigid opposition."
Aphra Behn
W
"Listen to the fools reproof, it is a kingly jest."
William Blake
W
"If others had not been foolish, we should be so."
William Blake
"There cannot be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full."
Christina Rossetti
P
"Humor is the wisdom of the light-hearted."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
J
"I have lived long enough to see that life is not a tragedy, but a comedy."
Jonathan Swift
J
"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow."
Jonathan Swift
J
"I never saw so much wit and spirit wasted on trifles."
Jonathan Swift
J
"Humor is a strength, not a weakness."
Jonathan Swift
"A woman's laughter is her declaration of independence."
Eliza Haywood
"Humor is the mask we wear to hide our deepest wounds."
Aphra Behn
"Laughter is the rebellion of the spirit against despair."
Aphra Behn
S
"There is nothing so consolatory to a ruined man as a letter of condolence from a rival."
Samuel Johnson
S
"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek."
Samuel Johnson
S
"It is impossible to spend money and not miss it."
Samuel Johnson
S
"Men are willing to be called unjust, but no one likes to be called mad."
Samuel Johnson
M
"Laughter is the music of the spirit."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
W
"I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise."
William Blake