Famous Quotes

"Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn."

Irvin S. Cobb on Humor

More quotes about Humor

• "A joke is a very serious thing."

  Winston Churchill on Humor

• "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

  Mark Twain on Humor

• "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

  William James on Humor

• "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Humor

• "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

  Henry Ward Beecher on Humor

More quotes by Irvin S. Cobb

• "Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms."

• "As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid."