Humor(42)

"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense."
Jacob August Riis

"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

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight."
Leo Rosten

"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

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
Mark Twain

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

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

"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."
Peter De Vries

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

"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