H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Humor is not about problems with airline luggage handlers. It's about our lives in America and it's about the ends of our lives and it's about everything that happens after that and everything that happened before.”
“Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view.”
“Humor is not far from my vocabulary.”
“Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.”
“Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.”
“Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.”
“Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.”
Source: The Wisdom of Goethe
“Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.”
“Humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.”
“Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.”
Source: My works and days: a personal chronicle
“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.”
Source: INWARD HO!
“Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.”
Source: The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge
“Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.”
“Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.”
“Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's not necessarily their rap.”
“Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.”
“Humor is reason gone mad.”
“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.”
“Humor is serious work. But it keeps everybody at the table.”
“Humor is so culturally based that when I try to tell a joke as me being a white American, if I tell other white Americans, they'll laugh. If I tell an African American, they might not laugh. In fact, they either might not find it funny, or they might find it offensive, and I didn't mean it to be offensive. So these are the sort of little things that build up over time, just like in a marriage. You know, the little things can build up over time.”
“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.”
“Humor is such a great gift - why leave it to chance?”
“Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.”
“Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.”
“Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.”
“Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.”
Source: Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary
“Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.”
Source: The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission
“Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.”
“Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.”
“Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.”
Source: Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around
“Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.”
“Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.”
“Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.”
“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.”
“Humor is the good natured side of a truth.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.”
Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches
“Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.”
Source: Man's Search for Himself
“Humor is the honey in my tea.”
“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.”
“Humor is the mask of wisdom.”
“Humor is the mechanism by which we sort out the gray area of what can and can't be said. A humorless society, community, or group of friends likely has large problemas lurking just beneath the surface.”
Source: A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
“Humor is the mistress of tears.”
“Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Frost
“Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.”
“Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.”
“Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.”
“Humor is the only reason to live.”
“Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.”