Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
Jimmy Buffett

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Thomas Carlyle

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
Dean Koontz

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

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.
John Kenneth Galbraith

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
Steve Irwin

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
Edward de Bono

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
Shel Silverstein

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

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

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
Doug Larson

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
Steve Allen

What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
Calvin Klein

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.
Bob Newhart