Humor Quotes

Wit is cultured insolence.
?Aristotle

Folks that blurt out just what they think
wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
?Kin Hubbard

Humour has justly been regarded as the
finest perfection of poetic genius.
?Thomas Carlyle

Humor must not professedly teach and it
must not professedly preach, but it
must do both if it would live forever.
?Mark Twain

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters
will be ridiculous in serious matters.
?Cato the Elder

We never respect those who amuse us,
however we may smile at their comic powers.
?Marguerite Gardiner

A difference of taste in jokes is
a great strain on the affections.
?George Eliot

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
?Wendy Wasserstein

A person reveals his character by nothing
so clearly as the joke he resents.
?Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration
of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
?Romain Gary

The test of a real comedian is whether you
laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
?George Jean Nathan