Humor Quotes

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

21194 quotes

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"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
Correia, Fabrice
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"The value of humor lies in its ability to reveal truth through disguise."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Humor is the shortest distance between two truths."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Humor is wisdom dancing in disguise."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Humor helps us endure what seriousness cannot bear."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Humor is the balm we apply to our deepest wounds."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Humor is the highest form of intelligence."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Humor is a weapon against despair."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Trying to be funny is an easy way to look foolish."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"Humor is tragedy that has aged well."
Smith, Barry
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"Humor is the shield against unbearable truth."
Smith, Barry
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"Humor is often truth wearing a clever disguise to slip past our defenses."
Smith, Barry
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"Humor is the spice that makes difficult truths digestible."
Smith, Barry
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"Laughter is the best medicine."
Kaplan, David
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"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
Kaplan, David
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"Humor is the shock absorber of life."
Perry, John
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"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
Perry, John
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"Humor directed at power reveals truths that serious argument sometimes cannot."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Smith noted that humor is often our most honest form of truth-telling."
Smith, Barry
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"Humor allows us to speak truths that solemnity would silence."
Smith, Barry
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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"One cannot be angrily certain one would not drink the coffee cup."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"The joke has the same structure as the proof."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"What an extraordinary thing to say! 'The world is everything that is the case.' As if that were saying something."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
Perry, John
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"Humor is the spice of life."
Burge, Tyler
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"Humor is the wisdom of the soul expressed in laughter."
Kaplan, David
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"Humor is the shield we use to protect ourselves from despair."
Kaplan, David
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"I can resist everything except temptation."
Fine, Arthur
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"Brevity is the soul of wit."
Fine, Arthur