Humor is wit and love. [ Thackeray ]
The sunshine of the mind. [ Bulwer Lytton ]
Humor is the mistress of tears. [ Thackeray ]
Good-humor is always a success. [ Lavater ]
Humor is the pensiveness of wit. [ Willmott ]
Humor is the harmony of the heart. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
The oil and wine of merry meeting. [ Washington Irving ]
Wit and humor belong to genius alone. [ Cervantes ]
Good-humor makes all things tolerable. [ Beecher ]
Good-nature is stronger than tomahawks. [ Emerson ]
Good-humor is goodness and wisdom combined. [ Owen Meredith ]
Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul. [ Frederic Saunders ]
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. [ Coleridge ]
Good-humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison. [ Stanislaus ]
Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness. [ Greville ]
Whenever you find Humor, you find Pathos close by its side. [ Whipple ]
Roughness may turn one's humor, but flattery one's stomach. [ Proverb ]
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. [ Anonymous ]
Flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar. [ William Shakespeare ]
Melancholy advanceth men's conceits more than any humor whatever. [ Burton ]
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit. [ Fielding ]
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water. [ Auerbach ]
Health and good humor are to the human body like sunshine to vegetation. [ Massillon ]
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. [ Carlyle ]
The humor of youth, which ever thinks that good whose goodness it sees not. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, yet has her humor most when she obeys. [ Pope ]
The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies. [ Macaulay ]
For the qualities of sheer wit and humor. Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. [ Leigh Hunt ]
Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature. [ Addison ]
When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. [ L'Estrange ]
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence. [ Carlyle ]
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad. [ Joubert ]
Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness. [ Dr. Watts ]
Humor is the very juice of the mind, oozing from the brain, and enriching and fertilizing wherever it falls. [ Edwin P. Whipple ]
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit goodnatured. [ Addison ]
Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Humor is one of the elements of genius - admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius. [ Goethe ]
People are not aware of the very great force which pleasantry in company has upon all those with whom a man of that talent converses. [ Steele ]
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern, - the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another. [ Dr. Johnson ]
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities. [ Walter Scott ]
There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humor and so little wit in their literature. [ Coleridge ]
There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. [ Emerson ]
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. [ Coleridge ]
It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. [ Sterne ]
Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness. [ Greville ]
Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me. [ Henry Home ]
Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, most earnest humor. [ E. P. Whipple ]
There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow. [ Seneca ]
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Goodnature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason. [ Dryden ]
Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. [ Whipple ]
It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor, - a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness. [ Whately ]
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue, - I mean good-nature, - are of daily use: they are the bread of mankind and staff of life. [ Dryden ]
I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition. [ Addison ]
Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers. [ Alcott ]
It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind. [ Lowell ]
Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life. [ Watts ]
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. It is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. [ Carlyle ]
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic, and the true, by whose light it surveys and shapes their opposites. It is an humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequalities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the spaces which separate the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble. [ E. P. Whipple ]
A sense of humor is a saving grace, and happy is that woman who has been blessed by birth with that rare sixth sense of seeing the funny side.
If you have it naturally, be gladly grateful, for it is a greater gift than beauty or riches. It means cheerfulness, contentment, courage and, possessing it, you are equipped with a potent weapon against the blows of fate. [ Unknown ]