A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Don Herold

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
Chevy Chase

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

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
Doug Larson

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

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

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey

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.
Jessamyn West

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


Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
Fred Allen

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

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley

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

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

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright

Gags die, humor doesn't.
Jack Benny