Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
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.
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
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.
You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.