Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. – Christopher Morley
But humor is too delicate and evanescent a thing to be extracted from a book like plums from a pudding. – Beatrix, “What to Read,” The Household, supplement to Michigan Farmer and State
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. – Irvin S. Cobb
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon
Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. – Author Unknown
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. – Mark Twain
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. – James Thurber
After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor. – Bill Kelly, "Mordillo"
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. – Mahatma Gandhi
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. – Peter De Vries
Humor is just another defense against the universe. – Mel Brooks
Humor is reason gone mad. – Groucho Marx
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. – Peter Ustinov
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. – Sid Caesar
Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. – Dorothy Parker
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. – George Saintsbury
Humor is… despair refusing to take itself seriously. – Arland Ussher
Humor is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. – Mary Hirsch
Wit.—Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. – Friedrich Nietzsche, “Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions” (#202, 1879), Human, Al
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes. – William Davis
