Humor Quote by Frank Moore Colby

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

— Thomas Carlyle

People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

— Peg Bracken

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

— Robert Benchley

A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man…

— Samuel Butler

“Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor?”

— George Eliot

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging…

— George Bernard Shaw

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

— Bette Greene

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

— Betty White

Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of…

— Edmund Burke

Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

— Thomas Lansing Masson

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

— Sinclair Lewis