If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. William Howard Taft on humor
You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain. Terry Bradshaw on humor
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. Edward de Bono on humor
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective. James Wolcott on humor
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh? Max Frisch on humor
Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it. Mark Russell on humor
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.' Adam Carolla on humor
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it. Allen Klein on humor
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns. Bret Michaels on humor
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. Russell Baker on humor
I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others. Dean Koontz on humor
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that. Ice Cube on humor
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them. Vera Farmiga on humor
A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor. Kathy Griffin on humor
You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity. Lance Bass on humor
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. J. G. Ballard on humor
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. Horatio Nelson on humor
Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person. Peter Steele on humor
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release. Joaquin Phoenix on humor
Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny. Betty White on humor