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Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
– Author Unknown
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
– Agnes Repplier
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 distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
– Agnes Repplier
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
– Agnes Repplier
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
– Mary Hirsch
Humor is a rubber sword--it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
– Mary Hirsch
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
– T. S. Eliot
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law
– Dick Clark
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
– Dick Clark
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
– Edward De Bono
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
– James Thurber
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
– Mel Brooks
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
– Mark Twain
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.
– Oscar W. Firkins
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 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
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
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
– Leo C. Rosten
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
– Virginia Woolf
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
– Mark Twain
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
– Mark Twain
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
– Aristotle
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
– Aristotle
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 C. Rosten
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