I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.
Simon Pegg

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

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank Howard Clark

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
Mason Cooley

It's very hard to write humor.
Mark Strand

Humor is healing.
Brad Garrett

We do not take humor seriously enough.
Konrad Lorenz

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Samuel Richardson

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
Fred A. Allen

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
Ivan Reitman

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
Allen Klein

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
Samuel Richardson

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
Florenz Ziegfeld