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

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

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

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

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

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
Robert Orben

Humor comes from self-confidence.
Rita Mae Brown

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.
Kathy Griffin

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