Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. Langston Hughes
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
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. Peter Ustinov
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
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. Langston Hughes
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. James Thurber
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. Ambrose Bierce
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. E. B. White
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. Agnes Repplier
Humor is just another defense against the universe. Mel Brooks
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
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival. Aung San Suu Kyi
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. Don Herold
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. Clifton Paul Fadiman
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. Doug Larson
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
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. Jennifer Jones
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. Chevy Chase
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. Simon Wiesenthal