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.
- Rashida Jones
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
- Sam Walton
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
- John Gerzema
People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
- Bob Newhart
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.
- Brian Eno
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
- Romain Gary
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
- Madonna Ciccone
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
- Stan Laurel
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
- Bret Michaels
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!
- Joseph Pulitzer
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
- Eminem
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
- Robert Collier
I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.
- Victoria Beckham
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
- Patch Adams
I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.
- Jason Statham
We do not take humor seriously enough.
- Konrad Lorenz
In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.'
- Michael Keaton
Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
- Peter Steele
I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity.
- Nipsey Russell
All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
- Lenny Bruce
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
- Anne Lamott
I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.
- Tommy Lee Jones
I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.
- Carmen Electra
I love being Latina. I love our values, the way we're so in touch with others, our dark humor, how fun we are, how relaxed we are. I love how hard working, independent, and ambitious we are.
- Eiza Gonzalez
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
- William Temple
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
- Bobby Clarke
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.
- Cynthia P. Schneider
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
- Horatio Nelson
We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a piece of paper, and that's what makes you someone's favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that's why we're their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we're their favorite.
- Gigi Hadid
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
- William Gilmore Simms
When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.
- Dylan O'Brien
Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
- Wavy Gravy
Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!
- Anne Hathaway
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
- Ralph Fiennes
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
- Carlos Ponce
I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.
- Bob Uecker
I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.
- Tyler, The Creator
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
- Umberto Eco
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
- Harry S Truman
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
- H. L. Mencken
Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
- Barack Obama
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.
- Weyes Blood
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
- H. G. Wells
Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.
- Jerry Seinfeld
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
- Francois Truffaut
Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.
- Sandra Bullock
A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.
- Dav Pilkey
I was a heathen Jewess with no bat mitzvah. Only the neurosis, the brown hair, and the self-deprecating humor. But being one of the only Jewish kids in my WASPy hometown definitely informed my perspective on the humor of being an outsider.
- Susanna Fogel
Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.
- Arlo Guthrie
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
- Frank Muir
In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.
- Sean Baker
Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
- Jonathan Winters
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
- Dick Clark
My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.
- Bill Burr
If we went by the world's definition of who I'm supposed to be because I look weird... 'Well, surely, this guy can't have a productive life, surely, he doesn't have a sense of humor. Surely, he can't love life.' We stereotype people in this world. And so... if the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.
- Nick Vujicic
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
- Charles Bukowski
I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
- Bernie Mac
I hang out with the 'nerdy' people - they have a different sense of humor than most kids.
- Liam Aiken
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
- Bert Williams
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
- Robert Orben
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
- Hattie McDaniel
You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
- John Cassavetes
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
- Garrison Keillor
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.
- Bob Newhart
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
- Gordon Gee
G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.
- Nelson DeMille
I grew up a skinny kid with a funny last name and coke bottle glasses, so I experienced my fair share of bullies. But I learned, with the help of humor and resilience, to never give up.
- John Hickenlooper
Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.
- Max Irons
A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.
- Ruth Westheimer
You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
- Lance Bass
I have been a big fan of the 'Fast and the Furious' franchise. The films are fast-paced, fun and keep the audience involved. There is a great mix of humor and action, something I really appreciate.
- Tony Jaa
Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
- Zach Anner
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.
- Steve Allen
The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.
- Marilyn Manson
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
- Suzanne Vega
Humor is a very personal, subjective thing.
- Shoojit Sircar
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
- Shel Silverstein
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
- Foster Friess
As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.
- Priscilla Presley
I've got a great sense of humor.
- Anthony Hopkins
There's always a source for humor.
- Calvin Trillin
I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.
- Jeff Bridges
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
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
- Xun Kuang
I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'
- Marlee Matlin
I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
- Zac Efron
I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
- Elaine Stritch
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
- Mark Van Doren
For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.
- Gillian Jacobs
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
- Tim Allen
Craig Sager's amazing attitude was truly inspirational. He was a champion during his battle, fighting every day with grace and humor.
- Monty Williams
I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.
- Bob Newhart
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
- Tom Robbins
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
- D. H. Lawrence