Humor Quotes

Addison, Joseph
Jesters do often prove prophets.


Albee, Edward
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.


Amory, Cleveland
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.


Carlyle, Thomas
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.


Chesterfield, Lord
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. -- Lord Chesterfield


Johnson, Samuel
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that makes it. -- Samuel Johnson


Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.


Maugham, W. Somerset
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance.