H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.”
“Humor is the only way to overcome depression”
Source: How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
“Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.”
Source: Church Dogmatics Study Edition 20: The Doctrine of Creation III.4 § 55-56
“Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.”
“Humor is the pensiveness of wit.”
“Humor is the quiet spark that lights even the darkest moments, reminding us that laughter is the soul’s gentle rebellion.”
Source: Tales of Habib the Hoaxter: Sometimes Hoaxed, Always Good for a Laugh
“Humor is the razor-sharp edge of the truth. It’s pain and anger made funny…because if you’re just angry all the time, all you’re going to do is burn yourself out and chase everybody away. That’s not how you change hearts and minds…passion is better than Prozac.”
“Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.”
“Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.”
Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more
“Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.”
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
“Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.”
“Humor is the whole truth.”
Source: Please Sir!
“Humor is tragedy plus time.”
“Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.”
“Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.”
“Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.”
“Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.”
Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone
“Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
“Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is shabby and tricky to offer; and much that needs to be treated with laughter and ironic humor.”
“Humor is wit and love.”
Source: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers
“Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.”
Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
“Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.”
Source: The return of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n
“Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.”
“Humor itself is a great disinfectant. It enables people to listen.”
“Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.”
“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”
“Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.”
“Humor lightens our spirits, comforts us through the challenge, brings people together, and helps us to remember the positive sides of life. When your presence and personality bring this welcomed delight and joy to others, you are a pleasure to know and you leave them wanting more.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.”
“Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.”
Source: Feast of Stephen
“Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”
Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography
“Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.”
“Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity is often masked when your in a group because laughter is contagious.”
“Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes.”
“Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It takes what we know and it twists it. ... Because women are on the ground floor, and we know the traditions so well, we can bring a different voice to the table.”
“Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.”
“Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.”
“Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.”
“Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.”
“Humor tells you where the trouble is.”
Source: Alone in America: the search for companionship
“Humor und Geduld sind die beiden Kamele, mit denen man jede Wüste durchqueren kann. (Arabisches Sprichwort)”
Source: Sophia oder Der Anfang aller Geschichten
“Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.”
“Humor was a good way to hide the pain.”
“Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.”
“Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.”
Source: Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
“Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“Humor was the enemy of desire.”
Source: 2010: Odyssey Two
“Humor, when rooted in compassion, becomes medicine; when blended with insight, it becomes wisdom.”
Source: The Buddha’s Smile: A Humorous Guide to Wisdom
“Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.”