Quotes about Humor
My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
- Warwick Davis
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
- Oscar Wilde
Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.
- Paulo Coelho
If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.
- Ricky Gervais
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
- Mark Twain
Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'
- Marina Abramovic
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
- Samuel Johnson
Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.
- Washington Irving
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
- Virginia Woolf
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
- Madeleine L'Engle