Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. Langston Hughes on humor
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 on humor
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. Peter Ustinov on humor
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 on humor
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. Langston Hughes on humor
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. James Thurber on humor
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. Ambrose Bierce on humor
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. E. B. White on humor
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. Agnes Repplier on humor
Humor is just another defense against the universe. Mel Brooks on humor
Wit is the lowest form of humor. Alexander Pope on humor
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 on humor
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival. Aung San Suu Kyi on humor
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. Don Herold on humor
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. Clifton Paul Fadiman on humor
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. Doug Larson on humor