Humor Quotes

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

21194 quotes

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"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."
George Bernard Shaw
"Life is not a tragedy or a comedy but a farce."
Gustave Flaubert
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"To have a sense of humor about ourselves is the beginning of wisdom."
George Eliot
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"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow"
Charles Dickens
"Humor is the weapon of those who see the absurdity in life."
Émile Zola
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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on us."
Alexandre Dumas
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"The majority of husbands remind me of an orang-utan trying to play the violin."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
Victor Hugo
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"To laugh is to live."
Victor Hugo
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"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Humor is the soul's way of coping with pain."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Humor softens the blow of reality."
Charlotte Brontë
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"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."
Charles Dickens
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"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow."
Charles Dickens
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"Flattery is the cologne of social commerce."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
Victor Hugo
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"To laugh is to risk appearing a fool; to weep is to risk appearing sentimental."
Victor Hugo
"One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Humor is often the most honest form of truth disguised in laughter."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Humor heals what logic cannot and connects what words cannot reach."
Alexandre Dumas
"Humor is often wisdom disguised as lightness."
Émile Zola
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"Time flies when one is eating words."
Charles Dickens
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"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."
Charles Dickens
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"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick."
Charles Dickens
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"Some people are born with a great future behind them."
Charles Dickens
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"The majority of husbands remind me of an orang-outang trying to play the violin."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
Victor Hugo
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"Laughter is thunder born of the storm."
Victor Hugo
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"Laughter is the best medicine for the soul."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Humor is a gift we give ourselves."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge