Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

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

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.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.