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

19.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

21.

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

22.

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

23.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

27.

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

28.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

30.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

31.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

33.

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Strachey, Lionel

34.

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

35.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

36.

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

Eva Hoffman

37.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

38.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

39.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Keillor, Garrison

40.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White

41.

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

42.

What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

43.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

44.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

45.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Fredrich

46.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Eco, Umberto

47.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

48.

There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Diller, Phyllis

50.

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye