When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle
Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.
Osho
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly
Jim Rohn
I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think you can't ever get enough of and, if it's done well, it's great. When it's bad, it's horrible.
Sandra Bullock
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
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
Oliver Goldsmith
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your step as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward
There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me to-day will have somebody to laugh at him to-morrow.
Seneca