Humor Quotes

"One of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go through life unmarked by any calamity."

"Humor lightens even the heaviest burdens."

"Humor often illuminates truth more readily than solemnity."

"Humor often reveals profound truths about mathematics."

"Humor is the spice that makes life palatable."

"We are born naked, and the rest is drag."

"A sense of humor is good for your health."

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

"You feel yourself degraded if you ring a bell for a servant, but not degraded by causing a telephone exchange to lose money through your conversation."

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."

"Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted."

"You should not speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people like us despise it."

"Most of the things that people do are not really very interesting."

"What I tell you three times is true."

"A mathematician's work is mostly a matter of plagiarizing the works of better mathematicians."

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."

"A good mathematical joke is better appreciated the more you know; the worst mathematical jokes are those the public enjoys."

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."

"Beware of the man who does not play."

"All the world's religions, in their descriptions of paradise for eternity, describe a place which would drive any alive and sane person mad in a week."

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."

"In humor, we find relief from the burden of understanding."

"Laughter is medicine for the troubled heart."

"Humor reveals truth in unexpected ways."

"A mathematician is someone who can convince other people that a statement is obviously true when they themselves don't understand it."

"There is something strangely winning about the good humor of those who have nothing at stake."

"A sense of proportion is a sense of humor."

"In the old times they had no statistics, and so they had to fall back on lies. Then we discovered statistics, so now we have no need to resort to falsehoods - we have statistics."

"Humor is wisdom wrapped in the clothing of joy and lightness."

"Humor allows us to see our tragedies from a distance that diminishes their power."