In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mohandas Gandhi

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain

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

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Mark Twain

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby

Humor is reason gone mad.
Groucho Marx

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
Bob Hope

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

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes

The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
H. L. Mencken