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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Victor Borge on humor

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones on humor

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
Chevy Chase on humor

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
Simon Wiesenthal on humor

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 on humor

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert on humor

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye on humor

Gags die, humor doesn't.
Jack Benny on humor

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
Fred Allen on humor

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
Allen Klein on humor

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten on humor

You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
Don Rickles on humor

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar on humor

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
Allen Klein on humor

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman on humor

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson on humor

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
Bernard Williams on humor

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley on humor

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries on humor

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee on humor