Humor(42)

"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."
Bill Cosby

"The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes."
William Davis

"Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully."
Max Eastman

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

"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 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

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
Mohandas Gandhi

"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."
Larry Gelbart

"There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor."
Thomas W. Higginson

"When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence."
Thomas W. Higginson