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Humour Quotes and Sayings

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one’s bottom.
Taki

Let the little fairy in you fly!
Rufus Wainwright

Humour is also a way of saying something serious.
T S Eliot

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.”
William Somerset Maugham

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.
Mark Twain

I’ve never had so much fun as I’m going to have tomorrow!
Dennis the Menace

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn’t.
Rufus Wainwright

Humor is a universal language.
Joel Goodman

Humour has been the balm of my life, but it’s been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
Lana Turner

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf

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

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
Simon Wiesenthal

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
Kate Beckinsale

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

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it’s War and Peace everyday.
Rufus Wainwright

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

Humor is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch

Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.
James Cone

Humor is… despair refusing to take itself seriously.
Arland Ussher

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That’s what clowns are for.
Emma Thompson

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. George Saintsbury

The best things in life are silly.
Scott Adams

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf

Humor results when society says you can’t scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.
Tom Walsh

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
Erica Jong

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

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
Mae West

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will Rogers

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
Simon Wiesenthal

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
Winston Churchill

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