Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.
Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.