Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

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

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

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.