Best Quotes on Humor by Inspirational Persons

{YBA} Some collection quotes of humer and from great peoples quotation on humor are posted here for you. Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.Agnes Repplier.

Mark Twain
Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

Irvin S. Cobb
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Christopher Morley
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

Victor Borge
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.

Jennifer Jones
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

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

Thomas W. Higginson
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

Peter De Vries
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Thomas W. Higginson
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

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

Thomas W. Higginson
When a thought takes one’s breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.