Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years. – Robert Orben
Humor comes from self-confidence. – Rita Mae Brown
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
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. – William Temple
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit. – Bobby Knight
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten. – Constance Rourke
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it. – Kesha
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
Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it. – Malcolm Muggeridge
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions… the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. – Colin Firth
Have a sense of humor about life – you will need it. And be courteous. – Peter Jennings
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. – Adam Smith
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. – James Thurber
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. – Miguel de Cervantes
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way. – Allen Klein
There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor. – David Duchovny
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor. – Maynard James Keenan
