25 Quotes on Humour

Humour really is our saving grace, and it helps keep us psychologically healthy...

"Laugh as much as possible, always laugh. It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself & one's fellow human beings." - Maya Angelou

"A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better." - Barbara Walters

"He who laughs, lasts." - Mary Pettibone Poole

"A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing." - Laura Ingalls Wilder

"There is nothing like a gleam of humour to re-assure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face." - Eva Hoffman

"Through humour, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it." - Bill Cosby

"A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road." - Henry Ward Beecher

"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously." - Oscar Wilde

"When humour goes, there goes civilisation." - Erma Bombeck

"A sense of humour... is needed armour. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life." - Hugh Sidey

"A sense of humour is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done" - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humour in it." - Frank A. Clark

"No mind is thoroughly well organised that is deficient in a sense of humour." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Comedy is acting out optimism." - Robin Williams

"A well-developed sense of humour is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life." - William Arthur Ward

"Humour can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing." - Allen Klein

"Humour is just another defense against the universe." - Mel Brooks

"Humour is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it." - Langston Hughes

"Humour 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." - Christopher Morley

"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humour." - Jennifer Jones

"Humour is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humour than in anything else. Because, you see, humour is truth." - Victor Borge

"Humour is the affectionate communication of insight." - Leo Rosten

"Like a welcome summer rain, humour may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you." - Langston Hughes

"Next to power without honour, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humour." - Eric Sevareid

"The more I live, the more I think that humour is the saving sense." - Jacob August Riis