Funny Humor Quotes

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• There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're born with these so-called defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top.
~ Peter Cook

• A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
~ Don Herold

• A joke is a very serious thing.
~ Winston Churchill

• A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
~ Chevy Chase

• A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

• A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
~ Doug Larso

• A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
~ Mignon McLaughlin

• A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
~ Clifton Paul Fadiman

• A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
~ Hugh Sidey

• A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. 
~ Jessamyn West

• A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
~ William Arthur Ward

• Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. 
~ Groucho Marx

• All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
~ Fred Allen

• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
~ E. B. White

• Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
~ Sid Caesar

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

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
~ J. B. Priestley

• In my sentences I go where no man has gone before...I am a boon to the English language.
~ George W. Bush

• Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
~ Frank Moore Colby (The Colby Essays)

• Humor is just another defense against the universe.
~ Mel Brooks

• When humor goes, there goes civilization.
~ Erma Bombeck

• Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge

• What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.
~ Anonymous

• A pun is the lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first.
~ Oscar Levant

• There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
~ Will Rogers