Famous Quotes

"Humor is just another defense against the universe."

Mel Brooks 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 Mel Brooks

• "I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."

• "Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."

• "If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none."

• "Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love."

• "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."