Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. — Victor Borge
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 sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life. — Arabic Proverbs
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. — Rufus Wainwright
Humor is just another defense against the universe. — Mel Brooks
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. — Romain Gary
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. — Roman Gary
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt. — George Santayana
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
Short Life Humor Quotes
Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. — Viktor E. Frankl
Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible. — Elisha Cuthbert
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. — James Thurber
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. — Lord Chesterfield
Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture. — Konrad Lorenz
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing. — William James
If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like. — Natalie Portman
Humor was a good way to hide the pain. — Rick Riordan
Top 10 Life Humor Quotes
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. — Mark Twain
Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. — Woody Allen
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that. — Lewis Grizzard
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. — Eric Cantona
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut — Albert Einstein
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. — Oscar Wilde
Life Humor Image Quotes
I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly — Peter Cook
I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak. — Woody Allen
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. — Herbert V. Prochnow
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Work-life Balance Quotes
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. — Alain de Botton
As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing. — Lewis Howes
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Knowledge workers train, sprint, rest, and re-assess. — Naval Ravikant
Forty-hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. — Naval Ravikant
In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office — Harold S. Kushner
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
True success is exiting some rat race to modulate one’s activities for peace of mind. — Edward O. Thorp
Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess. — Naval Ravikant
Weirdly enough, the best thing for my mental health was giving into my innate nature to work. And the most depressed I get is when I try to restrict it, like, 'I don't work weekends' or 'I don't work this day.' — MrBeast
Don’t work hard just so you can take a holiday. Work hard to build a life that you don’t need to take a holiday from. — Steven Bartlett
Finding Humor In Life Quotes
It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver. — Betty White
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark. — Steven Wright
If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity. — George Mikes
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves. — Jerry Seinfeld
I find it discouraging - and a bit depressing - when I notice the unequal treatment afforded by the media to UFO believers on the one hand, and on the other, to those who believe in an invisible supreme being who inhabits the sky. — George Carlin
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?" — Keith Waterhouse
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't. But I can pretty much find humor in anything. That is a necessary part of life. I don't want to say laughter is healing, because it sounds corny, but it's a release. — Jennifer Aniston
Within any drama in anyone`s life, there`s always a way to find the humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on. — Elizabeth Reaser
Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it. — Nick Kroll
I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life. — Amy Seimetz
Life Without Humor Quotes
All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought — Robert Breault
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it. — Jimmy Demaret
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. — Dave Barry
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. — Louise Erdrich
Life is a waste without humor -- living is all about happiness and laughter. — Fauja Singh
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. — Anne Lamott
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity. — Philip Butler
I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor. — Thomas Jane
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power. — George Will
I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all. — David Cronenberg
Sense Of Humor Quotes
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. — Groucho Marx
There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see
that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.
But through whatever you see,
through all the rain and the pain,
you gotta keep your sense of humor.
You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.
Remember that. — Tupac Shakur
Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack. — Dr. Seuss
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same. — Dan Millman
I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being. — Joan Baez
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension. — Edmund Hillary
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say. — Wentworth Miller
'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh. — Michael Craig-Martin
Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit. — Tupac Shakur
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
Writing Humor Quotes
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. — Paul Valery
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. — Steven Wright
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious. — Richard Russo
He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose. — Fred Allen
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin. — David Letterman
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it. — Katy Perry
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's brush- is the thumbprint of her whole person- her idea, wit, humor, passions, rhythms. — Patricia Lee Gauch
Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. — Charles Willeford
Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a genius, you try and write a postcard you come across like a moron anyway: 'This city's got big buildings. I like food. Bye.' — Jim Gaffigan
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON. — Albert Schweitzer
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy. — Charlie Chaplin
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. — Dr. Seuss
Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love. — Bob Fosse
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. — Red Skelton
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. — Robert Bloch
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. — Cullen Hightower
By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself. — Kajol
Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human self. It is the only way I can live and laugh without guilt. — Staceyann Chin
Marriage Humor Quotes
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein
God created sex. Priests created marriage. — Voltaire
You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. — Jay Leno
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. — Johnny Carson
I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always — Red Skelton
All marriages are same sex marriages. You get married and every night, it's the same sex. — Bill Maher
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. — Helen Rowland
Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life. — Stephen Hawking
Dark Humor Quotes
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. — George Lucas
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way. — Michael Buble
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. — P. G. Wodehouse
Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at something inappropriate with their whole bodies, a guttural, visceral laugh beyond a mere "hah." — Anthony Jeselnik
A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor is very dark. Our films are usually very dark and it's always someone being killed. Usually a child. — Taika Waititi
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that. — Ice Cube
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are. — Jess C Scott
Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness; and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick-bed with thorns, and rack our sinking spirits with despair. — Reginald Heber
Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor. — Karl Barth
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. — Washington Irving
Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. — Reinhold Niebuhr
I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor. — Katie Price
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. — Joseph Addison
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. — Bill Cosby
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." — Quincy Jones
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious. — Bel Kaufman
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. — Erma Bombeck
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. — Victor Borge
Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers. — Matt Groening
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung
Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives. — Kurt Cobain
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. — George Carlin
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. — Lewis Grizzard
You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years. — Chris Rock
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. — George Bernard Shaw
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. — Mark Twain
Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness. — Gary Snyder
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously. — Albert Einstein
A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do. — Voltaire
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. — Thornton Wilder
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. — Robert Collier
There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure. — Jack E. Leonard
You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue. — Claude Chabrol
Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes. — George Carlin
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down. — Abraham Lincoln
Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it’s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early. — Doug Stanhope
Life sucks sometimes. To be a winner you just have to suck harder. — Joe Gatto
Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward. — George Carlin
Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get. — Jim Davis
Just hit the blunt one time and see if it don't change your perception on whats important in your life. — Katt Williams
Everyone smiles in the same language. — George Carlin
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