Famous Quotes About humor

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

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

Humor is reason gone mad.

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.

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.

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

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.