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| Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. | | Leo Rosten | |
| Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. | | Mark Twain | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 Rosten | |
| I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. | | Frank A. Clark | |
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| If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman | | Oscar Wilde | |
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets
himself killed on the next zebra crossing. | | Douglas Adams | |
| See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. | | Robin Williams | |
| Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.' | | Charles M. Schulz | |
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| There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow | | Seneca | |
| There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner. | | P. J. O'Rourke | |
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| Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
