humor Quotes

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.