25 Best Quotes about Humour

Here's a compilation of 25 Best Quotes about Humour:

Humour is also a way of saying something serious. --T. S. Eliot

That is the saving grace of humour, if you fail no one is laughing at you. --A. Whitney Brown

Humour is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. u--Bill Nye

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. --Horace Walpole

A sense of humour is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Total absence of humour renders life impossible. --Colette

Humour is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? --Dick Clark

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. --Edward De Bono

Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. --Aristotle

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke. --Hugh Elliott

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. --James Thurber

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humourist makes fun of himself. --James Thurber

Where humour is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. --John Kenneth Galbraith

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. --Charlie Chaplin

Humour is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. --Lewis Mumford

Humour is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. --Mark Twain

Humour is just another defense against the universe. --Mel Brooks

Humour can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. --E. B. White

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. --Peter Ustinov

Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. --Mary Hirsch

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. --Pico Iyer

Defining and analyzing humour is a pastime of humourless people. --Robert Benchley

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. --Salma Hayek

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. --Mel Brooks