Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Humor Quotes
Gags die, humor doesn’t.
Humor tells you where the trouble is.
Humorist, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh’s heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.
There are very few good judges of humor, and they don’t agree.
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
No, it wasn’t fame that distorted Fields (W.C.). It was sickness and the clutching fear of being discarded to die on the Hollywood rubbish heap. If he must play a nasty old drunk and be publicised as a nasty old drunk in order to work on the Edgar Bergen radio show, then so be it. […]
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
