A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
– Don Herold
A joke is a very serious thing.
– Winston Churchill
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
– Chevy Chase
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
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
– Doug Larson
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
– Mignon McLaughlin
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
– Hugh Sidey
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
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
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
– Groucho Marx
All I know about humor is that I don’t know anything about it.
– Fred Allen
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
– E. B. White
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
– Sid Caesar
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
– Peter Ustinov
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile.
– J. B. Priestley
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
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
– Mark Twain
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
– Steven Wright
Gags die, humor doesn’t.
– Jack Benny
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don’t get sick you’re missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas W. Higginson
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
– Allen Klein
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
– Agnes Repplier
Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger.
– Allen Klein
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
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
– Edward de Bono
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
– James Thurber
Humor is everywhere, in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
– Bill Nye
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
– Mel Brooks
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
– Langston Hughes
Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.
– Mark Twain
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
– Irvin S. Cobb
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
Humor is reason gone mad.
– Groucho Marx
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
– Edward Albee
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
– Frank Howard Clark
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
– Mohandas Gandhi
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
– Jennifer Jones
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
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
– George Herbert
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
– Langston Hughes
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
– Emo Philips
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
– Thomas W. Higginson
One doesn’t have a sense of humor. It has you.
– Larry Gelbart
Puns are a form of humor with words.
– Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
– W. C. Fields
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
– Jacob August Riis
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
– Peter De Vries
The secret to humor is surprise.
– Aristotle
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
– Bill Cosby
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
– Thomas W. Higginson
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
– Robert Benchley
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
– Lin Yutang
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
– Bern Williams
When a thought takes one’s breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
– Thomas W. Higginson
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
–– Erma Bombeck
Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
– Ambrose Bierce
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
– Alexander Pope
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
– Bill Cosby
