This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

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

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

The more I live the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

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

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

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

Gags die humor doesn't.

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

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

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.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic so that came naturally to me.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life choose a sense of humor.

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.

A pun is the lowest form of humor unless you thought of it yourself.