Wit and Humor

"A merry heart makes a long life."

English Proverbs

Joy and Sadness

Wit and Humor

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Everyone smiles in the same language."

English Proverbs

Joy and Sadness

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood."

Mary Hirsch

Wit and Humor

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side."

Jane Austen

Wisdom and Stupidity

Wit and Humor

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them."

Lewis Mumford

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it."

Salma Hayek

Life and Death

Wit and Humor

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Humor is just another defense against the universe."

Mel Brooks

Wit and Humor

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

Peter Ustinov

Wit and Humor

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."

Muhammad Ali

Human

Wisdom and Stupidity

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In the beginning, God made the Heaven and Earth. The rest was Made in China."

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Various

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

Will Rogers

Authority, Government

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius."

Thomas Carlyle

Art and Culture

Talent and Genius

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Humor is also a way of saying something serious."

George Eliot

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Here's to your coffins: May they be made of hundred-year-old oaks, which we shall plant tomorrow."

(a toast)

Health and Alcohol

Life and Death

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Humor is the same as truth, only faster."

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Truth and Falsity

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy."

William Hazlitt "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"

Wit and Humor

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A laugh is a smile with a soundtrack."

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Joy and Sadness

Optimism and Hope

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A BAD day's fishing still beats a GOOD day at work!"

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Wit and Humor

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect."

Gerald Branan "Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany"

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

William Somerset Maugham

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings."

Samuel Beckett "Ill Seen Ill Said"

Reality and Imagination

Wit and Humor

Rating: 2.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than through grave teaching."

Baltasar Gracian "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Education

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Joy and Sadness

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist."

Quentin Crisp "The Naked Civil Servant"

Reality and Imagination

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The best jokes are those that life plays on us."

Agnieszka Lisak

Life and Death

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Keep changing your life into joke, the world is not worth treating seriously."

Agnieszka Lisak

Life and Death

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky "Notes from Underground"

Various

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist."

George Burns

Intellect, Judgement

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."

Edward de Bono

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."

Dame Edna Everage

Wit and Humor

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself."

Peter da Silva

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool."

Joseph Roux

Wisdom and Stupidity

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore."

Malcolm Muggeridge

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Satire is a lesson, parody is a game."

Vladimir Nabokov

Wit and Humor

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle "The Art of Rhetoric"

Education

Wit and Humor

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions."

Herman Melville "Israel Potter"

Wit and Humor

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams."

Thomas Carlyle "History of the French Revolution"

Authority, Government

History and Nations

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."

Larry Gelbart

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone."

Francis Picabia

Various

Wit and Humor

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

George Orwell "Collected Essays"

Manners and Ethics

Wit and Humor

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes."

Will Rogers

Politics and Diplomacy

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!"

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Sin and Conscience

Wit and Humor

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."

James Thurber

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."

E. B. White

Wit and Humor

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."

William Somerset Maugham

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"As many heads as many wits."

Scottish Proverbs

Wisdom and Stupidity

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Life and Death

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)