You can’t study comedy; it’s within you. It’s a personality. My humor is an attitude.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
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.
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 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.
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Gags die, humor doesn’t.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Humor comes from self-confidence.
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
