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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Washington Irving

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

Ned Rorem

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

Ted Danson

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Allen Klein

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

A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.

Josh Bowman

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Flip Wilson

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Margaret Cho

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

Laurel Lea

Fun is good.

Dr. Seuss

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

Bob Newhart

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Leo Rosten

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

Alan King

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

Allen Klein

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Humor is a part of spirituality.

Zooey Deschanel

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

Edward de Bono

Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

Foster Friess

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Allen Klein

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

James Thurber

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

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

Josh Tillman

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

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Tom Robbins

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Mark Twain

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

Clifton Fadiman

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

Gary Shteyngart

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Max Eastman

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Grenville Kleiser

Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

Jill McCorkle

A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.

Jason O'Mara

I like humor.

David Yates

There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

Amy Sedaris

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

Allen Klein

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Milton Berle

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Allen Klein

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

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

Langston Hughes

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

John Perry Barlow

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 healing.

Brad Garrett

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

Lorrie Moore

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Carl Hiaasen

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

Carl Hiaasen

Funny is an attitude.

Flip Wilson

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley

Humor helps people open up.

Roger von Oech

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

Jean Pigozzi

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Allen Klein

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

Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour.

Henry Allingham