Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Agnes Repplier

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

Clifton Fadiman

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White

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

Irvin S. Cobb

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

Gags die, humor doesn't.

Jack Benny

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

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Paul Klee

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark

Good humor isn't a trait of character; it is an art which requires practice.

David Seabury

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Romain Gary

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

Wow, three pairs of shoes! Someone had a fetish.

Marge Simpson

There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting.

Kevin Byrne

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Max Eastman

I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think you can't ever get enough of and, if it's done well, it's great. When it's bad, it's horrible.

Sandra Bullock

Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so bad it eventually blew out the back of his head.

Stephen Colbert

The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.

Robertson Davies

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

Courteney Cox

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Monty Python

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Leo Rosten

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Simon Wiesenthal

We call them Twinkies. You've seen them on television acting the news, modeling and fracturing the news while you wonder whether they've read the news - or if they've blow-dried their brains, too.

Linda Ellerbee

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas.

Jonathan Miller

Driving a fire truck is always a thrill. Is it better than sex? No!

Lou Angeli

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest."

Janeane Garofalo

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.

Steve Allen

I refuse to enter a wet T-Shirt Contest until my breasts look more like breasts, and less like something I should tuck into my pants.

Kelli Jae Baeli

Alright guys, I want to get out there and vote tomorrow. And not because it's cool, because it's not. You know what is cool? Smoking. Smoke while you vote.

Jon Stewart

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

David Riesman

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

Don Williams, Jr.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Mark Van Doren

You are not broken and you do not need to be fixed.

Joshua Estrin

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

Lana Turner

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

Edward de Bono

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

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

E. B. White

Puberty is the sickest joke God plays on us. So you're just noticing members of the sex: "Girls girls, ooo". Naturally you want to look your best, and God says "No! You will look the worst you've ever looked in your life!"

Eddie Izzard

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

Edward Albee