Warning: Humor may be ha...

Warning:  Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

~Ellie Katz~

There is no defense against ad...

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

~Thomas Higginson~

There is more logic in humor t...

There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

~Victor Borge, London Times, 3 January 1984~

The satirist shoots to kill wh...

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

~Peter De Vries~

The kind of humor I like is th...

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.

~William Davis~

Someone once defined humor as ...

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself.  I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

~Abe Burrows~

Nothing is more curious than t...

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.

~George Saintsbury~

Many a true word is spoken in ...

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

~English Proverb~

Let your humour always be good...

Let your humour always be good-humour, in the double sense of the phrase: if it comes from a bad humour, it is almost sure to be bad humour.

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827~

Imagination was given to man t...

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

~Francis Bacon~

If I had no sense of humor, I ...

If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide.

~Mahatma Gandhi~

I think the next best thing to...

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

~Frank A. Clark~

Humor results when society say...

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.

~Tom Walsh~

Humor prevents one from becomi...

Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events.

~E.T. "Cy" Eberhart~

Humor is... despair refusing t...

Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.

~Arland Ussher~

Humor is, I think, the subtles...

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms.  It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist.  It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

~Leo Rosten~

Humor is the instinct for taki...

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

~Max Eastman~

Humor is the great thing, the ...

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.  The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

~Mark Twain~

Humor is perhaps a sense of in...

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~

Humor is merely tragedy standi...

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

~Irvin S. Cobb~