A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

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.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

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.

Humor is reason gone mad.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

When humor goes there goes civilization.

The secret to humor is surprise.

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

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything even poverty you can survive it.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

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

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.