Sense Of Humor Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

  David Rakoff

  Doe, Persons, Being Funny

  David Rakoff (2002). “Fraud: Essays”, p.103, Anchor

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• For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

  George Barrell Cheever

  Humor, Abiding Faith, Giving

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• Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

  Mark Van Doren

  Men, Want, Serious

  Mark Van Doren, William F. Claire (1980). “The essays of Mark Van Doren (1924-1972)”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

  Sean O'Casey

  Prayer, Needs, Way

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• Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.

  Robert Orben

  Laughing, Competition, Influence

  "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to The White House - The one-laugh-one-vote theory has candidates cracking wise". Kevin Merida, The Dallas Morning News, February 15, 1988.

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• Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.

  Ann Landers

  Fun, Laughing, Unattractive

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• The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

  James Thurber

  Fun, World, Comedy

  Interview with Edward R. Murrow on "Small World", CBS-TV, March 25, 1959.

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• The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Truth, Lying

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• The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Humor, Two, Quality

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.491, Best Books on

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• Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!

  Debbie Gibson

  Doe, I've Learned, Lord

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

  Lin Yutang

  Change, Humor, Character

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The secret to humor is surprise.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Humor, Secret Love

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• The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.

  Ann Romney

  Secret, Happy Marriage, Easy

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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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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• The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.

  Robin Roberts

  Running, Absurdity Of Life, Careers

  "Robin Roberts MDS: ‘GMA’ Co-Host Announces She Has Bone Marrow" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

  Richard G. Scott

  Pressure, Valve

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• So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

  Freeman Dyson

  Life, Courage, Humor

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.1, Pantheon

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• There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, God, Hope

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• Fortune and humor govern the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  World, Fortune

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• That's the great thing about a sense of humor and a sex drive, you can't wait to share it with everybody else.

  Dolly Parton

  Sex, Waiting, Share

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

  Larry Gelbart

  Inspirational, Laughter, Humor

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• Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Happiness, Saint, Virtue

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

  Don Herold

  Humor, Feel Good, Feels

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