546 Quotes Regarding Humor

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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

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

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

Gags die, humor doesn't.
Jack Benny

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

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

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten

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

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

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

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman

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

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

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

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

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

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
Robert Benchley

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis