The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
James Thurber

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.
James Thurber

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
Bobby Knight

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

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Robert Collier

Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
Aziz Ansari

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
Anne Wilson Schaef

There is also 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.
Miguel de Cervantes

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
Lou Holtz

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

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
Dane Cook

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
Robert Benchley

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
David Herbert Lawrence

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.
Mike Epps