Quotes about Humor
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
— Mark Twain
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
— Samuel Johnson
Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.
— Washington Irving
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.
— Soren Kierkegaard
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
— Virginia Woolf
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
— Madeleine L'Engle
No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .
— Conan O'Brien
Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.
— J. Oswald Sanders
I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
— Bill Bailey
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.
— Mark Twain