Good Sense Of Humor Quotes

• A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

  Billy Graham

  Humor, Adversity, Overcoming

  Billy Graham (1993). “Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain”, Bantam

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• Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

  Rashida Jones

  Smile, Sense Of Humor, Your Smile

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• Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Thinking, Two, Laughing

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Laughter, Twilight

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.64, BookBaby

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

  Carmen Electra

  Heart, Want, Toes

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• Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

  William James

  Funny, Dance, Laughter

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

  William James

  Dance, Humor, Common Sense

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• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

  Francis Bacon

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

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• I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

  Victoria Beckham

  Real, Men, Shoes

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• If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Funny Love, Wise

  "The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas".

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  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

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Laughter, Twilight, Humor

  "The New World and the New Book, an Address, Delivered Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York City, Jan. 15, 1891".

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• No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Retirement, Humor, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation

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• Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

  Rashida Jones

  Smile, Beauty, Beautiful

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• And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teamwork

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• Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

  Margaret Cho

  Dark, Things In Life, Way

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• The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Humor

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• Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

  Eminem

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  Larry Gelbart

  Inspirational, Laughter, Humor

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• I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

  Edward Albee

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) act 1

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• I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dark, Luck, Sides

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

  Max Eastman

  Happiness, Funny Inspirational, Humor

  Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.36, Transaction Publishers

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• A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

  Jill Abramson

  Laughing, Helping, Sense Of Humor

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