A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. – William Arthur Ward
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing. – Emo Philips
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. – Mignon McLaughlin
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. – Jessamyn West
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. – James Thurber
Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. – Ambrose Bierce
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. – E. B. White
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. – Agnes Repplier
Wit is the lowest form of humor. – Alexander Pope
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. – John Kenneth Galbraith
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself. – Clifton Paul Fadiman
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. – Jennifer Jones
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. – Chevy Chase
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. – Simon Wiesenthal
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. – James Thurber
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. – George Herbert
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. – Allen Klein
Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger. – Allen Klein
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. – Bernard Williams
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile. – J. B. Priestley
