All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Bruce, Lenny

21.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

22.

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

24.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Kleiser, Grenville

25.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

26.

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

29.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.

Clark, Dick

30.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

31.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

32.

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Smith, Alfred E.

33.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

34.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Martin, Steve

35.

Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

36.

Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Whipple, Edwin P.

37.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

38.

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

King, Florence

39.

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

Borge, Victor

40.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

41.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

42.

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Diller, Phyllis

43.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

44.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

45.

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

Edward De Bono

46.

Humor is, I think, the sublets 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

Rosten, Leo

47.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

48.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

49.

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

50.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence