H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”
“Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?”
“Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.”
Source: Promise at Dawn
“Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.”
“Humor is an antidote to all ills.”
Source: Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy
“Humor is an antidote to isolation.”
Source: Improper behavior
“Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.”
“Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.”
“Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.”
“Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.”
“Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.”
“Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.”
“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”
“Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.”
Source: Letters, Conversations and Recollections
“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
“Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.”
“Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.”
“Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me. In the music industry, any other artist would have looked at the situation I was in and thought, "Oh man, this is not for me." I looked at it more like Darwin exploring the Galápagos Islands. You know - survival of the fittest.”
“Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.”
“Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to.”
“Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.”
“Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.”
“Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.”
“Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.”
“Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.”
“Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.”
“Humor is important in everything. Dress with a little humor and you can go a long way.”
“Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.”
“Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.”
Source: God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald
“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”
“Humor is just truth, only faster!”
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
“Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.”
“Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.”
“Humor is like a rhythm; it's like music. And you throw a couple of extra syllables in, you wreck the beat and you kill the laugh. So I try to follow the writers very carefully because I know how carefully they worked to do it that way.”
“Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.”
“Humor is man's greatest blessing.”
“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.”
“Humor is more so. For this, there's definitely moments that I think, "I know this part is really funny and I want to see people laugh." And they do and you go, "Yesss." That's really satisfying, because I'm so proud of the performances in the movie and everybody worked so hard.”
“Humor is most powerful thing that uses laughter as it base to chase your blues away.”
“Humor is necessary - it allows the reader to come up for air before dunking them under again. I need humor and I need it on the page to keep the reader going.”
“Humor is next to Godliness.”
Source: Mantrap
“Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.”
“Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.”
“Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.”
“Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.”