1. The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. - Mark Twain
2. I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. - Audrey Hepburn
3. When humor goes, there goes civilization. - Erma Bombeck
4. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - e. e. cummings
5. A day without laughter is a day wasted. - Charlie Chaplin
6. Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. - Mark Twain
7. Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. - Mark Twain
8. From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. - Dr. Seuss
9. The secret to humor is surprise. - Aristotle
10. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. - Mahatma Gandhi
11. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - Virginia Woolf
12. Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. - Steven Wright
13. Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else. - Will Rogers
14. Humor is reason gone mad. - Groucho Marx
15. Humor is the most engaging cowardice. - Robert Frost
16. The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood. - Lou Holtz
17. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole
18. Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. - W. C. Fields
19. It's a funny old world. - Margaret Thatcher
20. Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. - George Eliot
21. 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
22. There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. - Erma Bombeck
23. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. - Langston Hughes
24. Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. - Langston Hughes
25. Wit is the lowest form of humor. - Alexander Pope
26. A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. - William Arthur Ward
27. I think being funny is not anyone's first choice. - Woody Allen
28. Nothing like a little judicious levity. - Robert Louis Stevenson
29. 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
30. In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. - George Herbert
31. A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. - Henry Ward Beecher
32. I'm not funny. What I am is brave. - Lucille Ball
33. Impropriety is the soul of wit. - W. Somerset Maugham
34. You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. - W. Somerset Maugham
35. I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. - W. Somerset Maugham
36. Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. - Ambrose Bierce
37. Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too. - Jimmy Buffett
38. Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings. - Ellen DeGeneres 3
9. I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor. - Christopher Hitchens
40. I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. - Bob Hope
41. A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn? - Bob Hope
42. Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye
43. Laughter is an instant vacation. - Milton Berle
44. Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. - Washington Irving
45. Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension. - Edmund Hillary
46. Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. - James Thurber
47. 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
48. You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude. - Don Rickles
49. 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
50. We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. - Bil Keane
51. The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. - Moliere
52. Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. - Edward de Bono
53. Humor comes from self-confidence. - Rita Mae Brown
54. I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. - Michael J. Fox
55. Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival. - Aung San Suu Kyi
56. Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. - Simon Wiesenthal
57. Humor is just another defense against the universe. - Mel Brooks
58. A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. - Doug Larson
59. Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. - J. B. Priestley
60. The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself. - Oliver Goldsmith
61. I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. - Frank A. Clark
62. A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. - Chevy Chase
63. All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it. - Fred Allen
64. It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious. - Bill Hicks
65. Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. - E. B. White
66. There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. - Robert Benchley
67. What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. - Bernard Williams
68. The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. - Jacob Riis
69. Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. - Peter Ustinov
70. A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. - Mignon McLaughlin
71. Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. - Flip Wilson
72. Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh. - Tom Lehrer
73. Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
74. I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. - Edward Albee
75. You can't be funny if you don't have good material. - Matt LeBlanc
76. If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. - Paul Simon
77. Gags die, humor doesn't. - Jack Benny
78. A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. - Don Herold
79. Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor. - George Jean Nathan
80. The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. - Peter De Vries
81. Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. - Allen Klein
82. You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it. - Allen Klein
83. A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way. - Allen Klein
84. Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. - Allen Klein
85. Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman
86. It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. - Max Eastman
87. Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. - Sid Caesar
88. Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge
89. 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
90. A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. - Clifton Fadiman
91. If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. - Jennifer Jones
92. Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten
93. This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. - Lin Yutang
94. Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Agnes Repplier
95. Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. - Agnes Repplier
96. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James
97. One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. - Larry Gelbart
98. I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive. - Anne Wilson Schaef
99. One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. - Francoise Sagan
100. There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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