John Burroughs Quotes

Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

I'm sorry, but I can't imagine being an American icon! It would be pretty difficult to look at your face in the mirror and think of yourself as that without laughing and spitting toothpaste all over!

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.

I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.

If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.

I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.