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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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.

Humor is laughing at what you have not got when you ought to have it.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

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

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

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

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

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

Humor is something that thrives between man aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

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

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.