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One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.
-Chinese Proverb
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
-English Proverb
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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
-Proverb
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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because there were giants standing on my shoulders.
-Harold Abelson
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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
-Edward Albee
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
-Maya Angelou
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The secret to humor is surprise.
-Aristotle
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Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
-Aristotle
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
-W. H. Auden
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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
-Francis Bacon
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
-Ambrose Bierce
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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
-Marguerite Blessington
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.
-Erma Bombeck
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
-Victor Borge
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
-James Boswell
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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.
-Fanny Brice
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A rich man's joke is always funny.
-Thomas Edward Brown
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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.
-Lenny Bruce
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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
-Lenny Bruce
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
-Gelett Burgess
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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
-Carol Burnett
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Books about Humor
