Humor can do a lot to bring people together and find commonalities that you would not know otherwise existed. These quotes about sense of humor capture the skill it takes to make others laugh.
“A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.”
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.”
“A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”
“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”
“A sense of humor is needed armor.”
“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”
“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.”
“A sense of humor judges one’s actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.”
“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.”
“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.”
“A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.”
“An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.”
“Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.”
“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.”
“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.”
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
“Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.”
“Don’t wish me happiness – I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor – I will need them all.”
“Fortune and humor govern the world.”
“Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don’t get sick you’re missing half the fun.”
“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”
“I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.”
“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.”
“I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”
“It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.”
“Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don’t have a sense of humor it just isn’t funny anymore.”
“Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It’s like medicine – very healing.”
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”
“Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.”
“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
“Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.”
“One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.”
“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
“Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.”
“So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.”
“The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.”
“The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.”
“The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.”
“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
“The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.”
“The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.”
“There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.”
“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.”
“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”
“You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.”
“You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.”
A sense of humor is key to creativity and innovation.
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